[TheForge] Flux, was rust & pickling

[Ralph E Douglass]

> essentially turn it into anhydrous borax. Further, he said that he
> doesn't
> 
> know of anyone making any kind of flux that uses anhydrous borax as
> opposed
> 
> to regular borax because the anhydrous borax is more expensive. 

A few years back the guild I belong to got some anhydrous borax flux. It
had a different look to it. It was like coarse sea-salt in appearance.
And to be honest I did not see that much difference in it. But I also
tend to put flux on at a barely visible red, which seems to keep the
flux form foaming up and off.


> tinge to it after melting. I know I've melted what I thought was
> chemically
> 
> pure borax and it turned into the glassy black mass thing.

Was this melted on a piece to be welded or on a cookie sheet? in either
case could the borax have been reacting with the item it was on( I am
assuming iron) and turned black? I was told that to dry out borax you
should back it on a glass pie pan or other type of glass ware

Ralph

                                                        
					
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