[TheForge] Recent Hammer's Blow Spring 2003

Sun Jun 29 07:34:00 2003

Thanks for the tips Peter.  I know I had problems in the past with
overheating, as I watched in horror as a pure silver piece that I had a few
hours in just disapear when trying to attach the pin. I will look into the
different temp products, but for the moment this Stay Brite seems to work
real well and feels strong. Look forward to seeing if it works with
Stainless.

Harry

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Phoebe Palmer
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 2:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Recent Hammer's Blow Spring 2003

Hi Harry;
One of the interesting thing about  silver solders is that they are
available in a stepped range of temperature,  so it is possible to do a
number of successive stages of assembly using a progression of different
set-ups to produce a complex piece is several simple steps.
2 things i mess up with  silver soldering most often are, Inadaquate
surface prep, and overheating.
It's gotta be oxide and grease/oil free. On difficult pieces I take a 3
corner scraper to the interfaces.
Heat real slow from below....watch the flux  run, then creep up on liquidus.
Grunt, there's a line.....................Pete

H and P Foster wrote:

>After reading the issue I just received, and then some work in the shop,
>proves what a great source of ideas magazines like this are.  I do some
>different pieces of jewelry along with my ironwork, but one part of my
>jewelry making as always been hit and miss, and that is attaching fastening
>pins on the backs of decorative pins and broaches. Sometimes I have got
>silver solder to work, or the parent material but sometimes nothing works
>and I resort to epoxy, which I am not happy with.
>
>The letter in this issue titled "More on Jewelry" pointed me to a product
>that I had not heard of before, called "Stay Brite" which is a silver
solder
>that flows at 430 degrees F.  I got some yesterday and tried a test piece
>today and what a joy it was to work with.  That inspired me to make a nice
>little stylized Kiwi pin for my wife as we celebrate our 36th on Monday.
>
>thank you Hammer's Blow, as I hadn't even thought of a gift yet. :-)
>
>Harry Foster
>Rusty Dog Forge
>
>
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