Ingredients
Not too fancy
Categories: Instruction and information; Jewelry
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Heck no! While there is a recipe, it's not edible. Your digestive tract and teeth wouldn't
appreciate the metal flakes. The chemical agents have warnings about inhaling the fumes.
None of the ingredients are labeled for human use. So how could that collectively be
good for you? (The same thing probably happens every day in labs across the world before
whatever they make ends up on our dinner table, lol.) Then again, tight metal seams are
starving for this so it would be edible in the most divine way for them.
Solder mostly comes in thin wires, sheets, or strips that would be cut into smaller and
smaller pieces. You'd prep a piece, get it fluxed and all that fine stuff, position the
solder confetti flake, and heat it up. The solder would melt/flow into the crevices and
seal them solid, hopefully leaving few remnants of itself that could easily be sanded or
filed away.
Traditional solder bits have proven their functionality forever. It's no fun
using tiny pallions of solder. They like to surf the flux wave away from where you
meticulously placed them. Someone came up with the brilliant idea of mixing powdered
solder in a gel-like base. It stays put and gets hungrily
sucked into the joint. The convenience, efficiency, and precision are exceptional.
You should be able to make solder if you are using it.
Soldering requires the same ingredients no matter how it's done:
solder, flux and/or protectant, possible flow enhancers, deoxidizers, etc.
Having done all that, I decided to look into the paste thing.
I grabbed all those ingredients and mixed them together.
My solder shavings come from filing the edge of such an ingot that I made.
The shavings probably should be more powder-like but they've
been cordial thus far. It doesn't seem like much until you realize
how sparingly it works.
I'm taking a fancy to solder paste. One less thing to worry about, and this is a huge one.
An amazing invention would be a self-soldering solder paste; light it
and it takes care of the rest. They have something similar in other
industries so when are we gonna get it?
After some fine-tuning, I soldered the seam of a 1/4" inner diameter 8" long
0.999 fine silver tube with a 0.85mm wall thickness. To say I drowned the joint
on the first trial would be an understatement but that's how you learn.
Subsequent trials showed that the usability rapidly declined as the mixture dried out.
Rats. If it was that easy, everyone would do it.
Posted by M: February 5, 2020
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