When I was interested to learn how to solder silver, were not mentioned in the scope of the project, intimidated the flame. So I started very small with few expectations about the results. My biggest advice for beginners, is not expected to do the way you think it should work. Take time to learn what they do and do not. Be prepared, do not dissolve more things to fix. You learn the best lessons from your worst mistakes.
For my first trip to modest cashWelding, I bought a butane powered mini-flashlight, lock seams, magnesia, easy to weld as a child, some jump rings 18 gauge outdoor (8 or 9 mm are easier to handle at least the first), pickles, copper tongs and flux. You'll also need a glass of water quenching, sunglasses, a pair of pliers and a pair of pliers, without heat. Always wear safety glasses.
To begin, set your magnesia block (I prefer because it is cheaper, coal, as it takes less time to heat andcool faster) around in an open area without anything flammable him. Push the sleeves if they are long and tie hair back and if it is long. It 's a good idea to become familiar with the operation of the torch before welding the ring first jump. Turn on and off several times until you can do.
Take a clean jump ring and make sure that the ends match exactly, and touch. Weld will join a company, but does not fillGaps. Flow in the place you want to join. When the alloy melts, the flame and the flow of the river, where the track. Do not feed where no one wants to go to welding.
A few words on the rivers are in order. There are many to choose from. I use a paste or a liquid flow stream based on what I want. Flow has two goals to help the solder flow and protect your money from the scale of the fire. If the temperature of the pound to pay the heating, take a little 'copper alloy (92.5% silver, 7.5% copper) to the surface. Copper is mainly what makes silver tarnish protection more quickly and is responsible for the scale of the fire. Fire scale is presented as a black layer on the surface of your sterling. A series of how-to "on the silver solder will tell you the whole piece flows, limiting the scope of the fires. But what sometimes makes the league go where you do not want and is not always fun to try,Remove welding later. Paste Flux stays where you keep flowing and not always at home. But paste flux can be very hard and glassy, after heating and requires more time for the stain to remove it. It will not be a real problem with your draft of the first jump ring soldering and can do all kinds of feeds you want, But These are some points to remember for later, if at a later date. I caught the "error" to the right and not regretted it.
Now take your wire cutterscut and weld a small piece of easy. Should be about one eighth of an inch more than enough. Place the solder on the magnesia block. Place the ring on the jump to reach the solder to form a cross. Turn off any direct light on your work and use the ambient light. torches. Bring the torch slowly jump ring so as not to shock the jump ring soldering.
If you have a flow of dough and set the ring to move quickly toward the Lot iscan let it dry a bit 'and the two go together. If you are a liquid flow, do what I recommended in the previous paragraph.
With the light is not your job, you'll see in a better position to modify the color of the river and the metal is heated. Learn more about these changes color after hours will help you if you make big plans.
If the area of block magnesia based directly on the ring and jump ring and solder to reach the melting point ofwelding, will flow. Move the flame size jump ring. As you can see that start to turn pink, focus on the flame of the link. You see the bubble level on the surface of the drop jump block and is very bright and welding to join the current view. You have to look that fast for the last part. Remove the flame as soon as you can see, these things happen. Leave the flame too long, and merge your ring in a jump ball to Nice. When IFirst, this error, I had a lot of fun to make money scrap balls. May be useful in some designs. Also, remember that the league will follow the flame, to take the flame is straight, not sideways. Otherwise, follow the welding torch jump ring and a portion of your class ring.
A quick word on the heatsink. Everything about your job sucks the heat from the heat and take it from your work, including the air in the room. Do not ever settle gropedNothing great together, hung in the air. I know someone who has tried and failed. You can (and do not want) to heat the air in your workspace temperature welding. Small items such as rings or jump rings work quite well, well.
Take the ring with pliers and dunk into the fire without heat water Jump. Blowing a bit '. Jump to the ring dry and inspect the join. A small bump on the link is acceptable. A big shot is not, unless you wantmake a design element should ideally be. joined the site are not obvious. It will take some experimenting with different sizes of welding wire and the amounts that combines reach the point where you can almost invisible.
Take your copper tongs and place of the jump in the ring brine solution. Pickle is in fact a week of bright acid, copper fire off the scale in a white finish is easy. Do not fall into the cucumber. NotPut in the cucumber, it is still pretty hot. Even if an acid is relatively low, it will still burn and create holes in your clothes. Not immediately, but. They tend to appear after you wash them. Need pliers, because each copper ferrous (iron bearing) metal that comes in contact with the electrolytic solution is there and you end up on your silver plating. Remove the copper ring also directly to the clip. Rinse your temperWater. Or add a glass of water with baking soda to neutralize the acid alone increased.
If you want a hard, glossy, shiny on your jump rings can be removed with a wire brush of white paint. Dip a soft brass brush in a solution of detergent and water and rub the jump ring. The soap keeps the copper is deposited on the money. If you want a bright light, you should use a polishing wheel of any type with a polishing agent for free. Onlyremove varnish deposits fire very aggressively. If you do not have the money Pickle long enough, you can try to connect shaken. But remember, this will eliminate most of the money and if you have the display area, you lose everything or he obtained. It 'really better Pickle your subject long enough that no indication (yellow) scale of the fire remains.
Even those of silver solder was learning something new for a long period, usually the hard way. Recently, I learned thatYou can not silver solder brass. I did some research and I found out why. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. Silver solder is an alloy of silver, copper and zinc. So if you try to solder brass, zinc and copper, brass, sterling silver solder time, really. It looks like a mess. However, you can solder copper to silver, I did it without this problem. You can solder copperon brass. I tried to join, copper, brass, sterling and no luck at all.
These things are fun. Exit and turn on the torch! Soon you will be moving on to bigger things and better.
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