Subject: Making your own flux for hard soldering

From: [email-masked] (Ray)
Date: 13 Dec 1996 02:26:34 GMT

We start with Denatured Alchol about 4oz then add 2T of boric acid and 2T of 
boraz. Put the liquid in a small glass bottle and loosely capit. Place in a 
pan of water on the stove and heat to just below the boiling point. Stur the 
liquid until the alachol is completely saturated. When finished there should 
be some borax left in the bottom, if not you did'nt put enough in. So put some 
more in and heat again.

Next we make another flux with distiled water instead of alachol, using the 
same process as above.

We then dip the entire piece in the flux, set on the solder block and burn off 
the alachol. Then only add a very small ammount of the water flux on the join.

Ranson
http://www.ro.com/av/gems

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 13 Dec 1996 22:48:22 GMT

Whats the advantage your way?

It smells out mothers kitchen ............

Sorry, but I fell off my chair when I read this posting
its sooooo funny.

Alberto:

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Waggener)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 19:55:29 GMT

>http://www.ro.com/av/gems

Then again. Couldn't you just save yourself a ton of time by just
buying some "Handy Flux"?  At $10 a lb it goes a long way.
Whats the advantage your way?

Jim Waggener

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From: [email-masked] (Alan Shinn)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:42:46 -0800

> [email-masked] (Jim Waggener) wrote:
> 

Jim:
Ranson is shareing a very nice jewelers technique with us. I don't believe
that the alcohol flux is even buyable, but it does a very nice job of
scale proofing  an item to be hard soldered. When I was making jewelry, we
used the alcohol stuff for coating the whole piece and then Battern's(sp)
self pickling flux in the joint. Clean up was a joy compared to that
without the coating.

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Al Shinn  (Tinker)
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