MOTM

Right on. My dad used to make and restore stained-glass windows and had one
of those big irons and the paste flux. Definitely more of a fire hazard than
our wussy soldering stations ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mate_stubb@... [mailto:mate_stubb@...]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:51 AM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [motm] Re: [OT] Soldiering cheap jewelry...?
> 
> 
> First, solder meant for electronics is not going to work on jewelry. 
> Second, a soldering pencil that puts out 20 - 30 watts (ideal for 
> pcbs) is not going to be able to heat the metal enough to make solder 
> flow. You're going to need one of those big clunker irons, a jar of 
> paste flux that you brush on, and some silver solder. Unfortunately I 
> can't give you the exact solder formulation. I just know these things 
> from watching my wife solder stained glass.
> 
> Moe
> 
> --- In motm@y..., "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" <noise@A...> wrote:
> > 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
> 
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