[TheForge] Brass/Bronze brazing question

[PlumDon at aol.com]

Morning, Andy, et al


Kindest thanks for your suggestions re repairing the weather vane. I will 
follow them to the letter. 

Couple questions, if you dont mind and I thought I would respond to the list 
in case some others might also be interested in the answers

When you say 'finely divide', I take it you mean just clip off tiny snips of 
the silver solder from the sheet, mix them in with the borax flux and coat the 
joint?

What acid is good for pickling (cleaning up) the flux? I solder some other 
items also, and have trouble getting them clean of flux and they rust up on me. 
I would be interested in a pickle that would work well on steel and brass.

I have been using Rio Ready Flux from Rio Grande for silver solder flux. Do 
you have any experience with that...good or bad? For basic soft soldering I 
have had poor results with several fluxes (especially the craftsman stuff from 
Sears) until I started using Stay Clean. I use it with those little 60/40 
pellets, also from Rio Grande, and get really excellent results.

Thanks again for the help

Don

Don Plummer
Plummer Design Works
392 Hallman Mill Road
Phoenixville, PA 19460
610-495-5058