[TheForge] Re: Rust,pickling

[Mike Spencer]

me> I've found that the salts that work out of forge welded joints is
me> a real nuisance.

Grant> I typically use plain Anhydrous Borax and get no leaching, at
Grant> least on blades.

I'll keep that in mind.  I've used that but tend to like the
commerecial flux with iron filings in it for things like sticking
flower stems together and that's just the kind of weld that harbors
flux down in the crutch of the join.  Maybe I shd pratice a bit more
with borax.  I found it sorta slippery and harder to use singlehanded
where I couldn't wire or tack the pieces together before heating.

Since the last time I dehydrated any borax , I've acquired a couple of
very heavy iron bowls that might mnake perfect mortars for grinding up
the glassy borax after melting it.

- Mike

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