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Well, this doesn't have anything do to with electronics, but since quite a
few of you have FAR more soliering expirience than I, I figured I'd ask for
some input.

For my fiance and I's (is that bad grammer or what?) wedding, we want to
have wedding favors of two interlocked rings. We got a pile of cheap 10cent
rings which are more properly described as nearly-completed-circles. We've
pair them up so that the rings are joined, but now we need to soldier up the
gap in the ring to seal them shut. I'm pretty sure they're silver-coated
aluminum, or something like that. As an expiriement, we tried using the
no-wash soldier, but it failed. I'm not sure if we couldn't get the ring
hot enough (it was hot to the touch after applying the iron), or the soldier
was the wrong type, or what.

Does anyone have any advice? I know I need to get some kind of clamp to
hold the durned thing in place, because it kept skidding all over the desk--
too light. Is there a particular type of solder I should use? Is a cheap
radio-shack iron going to cut it (it works A-OK for MOTM stuff!)?

Thanks!!

--PBr