[TheForge] Forge Welding question

[Jerry Frost]

Naw, a little copper isn't a problem in a forge weld, I 
hear zinc is but have heard otherwise so I don't know 
for sure. Maybe one of these days I'll zinc contaminate 
an old prop forge and see if I can still weld with it. 
I have forged copper, melting some in it accidently and 
noticed no change in forge welding. This was before I 
changed fluxes too.

If you tried using American quarters it'd be a bust but 
Canadian quarters and dimes are nearly pure nickle and 
weld nicely.

I use borax and boric acid as a flux in a 4:1 ratio and 
since changing over haven't had a weld fail.

So, my two bits is:

Bit 1, copper isn't a factor.

Bit 2, Borax and boric acid makes an effective flux.

Frosty
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kim george" <klgeorge at kent.edu>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Forge Welding question


> Isn't there a little copper in that alloy for the new 
> coins? If there is that would do it.
>
> At 09:29 PM 6/8/2006 -0400, you wrote:
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>
>>Chris Kilpatrick wrote:
>>>hi Folks,
>>>      I have been having a little trouble forge 
>>> welding recently.  I found a pool of nickel in my 
>>> forge (from quarter mokume), could that be 
>>> interfering with my welds?  I found some of the 
>>> nickel had adhered to my billet.
>>
>>         Yeah, stuff like that contaminates the 
>> forge.  Is it a gas forge?  Coal?
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