Originally Posted by
beck-t
Hi Peter,
I haven't been able to get one decent photo of the silver shadowing on a piece yet, would help if my camera phone had a macro function! I will continue to try.
In terms of my soldering setup - I use a borax cone with water. I grind it to a reasonable consistency, still quite runny but almost opaque, nowhere near a paste like consistency. I paint it on to the area around the joint, heat it slowly until the flux stops bubbling and begins to settle down on the surface. I then add my solder. Heat until it flows, although sometimes once it becomes glassy it seems to form a layer between the solder and the joint and refuses to flow. I use medium or hard wire solder from Koodak:no: I don't want to say to much about that place... you never know who's reading... other than that I go there because it's the only place I know of that still carries a reasonable amount of stock, unlike the store I use to frequent one floor up from them in the Century Building, Swanston Street. I once enquired about what exactly was in the solder Koodak were selling but they didn't have any idea. I did a fusing/granulation workshop and the teacher (R.B.) was using 'Au flux'. He said he also used it for work with silver and base metals, I've been meaning to buy a bottle. What are your thoughts on that? I've never gone near Tenacity, that seems like pretty nasty stuff.
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Beck