what steps will you keep in your mind for a successful soldering
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Most things can seem daunting at first glance: think of the messiest room that you can imagine (no, not my studio). Then think about how you’d feel if someone said: “clean it”! Overwhelmed (and probably a little irritated that you got stuck cleaning this imaginary room), you look around – a bit dazed and confused. But, turn on a good audio book, start in one corner, have a few storage boxes, a couple of hooks, a cabinet or two and time and before you know it, the room is clean. It’s overwhelming to focus on the total scenario. But, if you focus on just one small spot, it’s manageable. So, we are going to look at soldering by only directing our thoughts to small parts of the whole.
I’ve broken, in this discussion of soldering, down the process, materials and tools. As the many videos and webpages, listed above, attest: I’ve produced a lot of material on soldering. Please take some time and check out my web pages and my videos.
So, like cleaning that messy studio, we will take small steps.
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As you no doubt know, by now, soldering involves heat – a lot of it. We use a gas torch to enable our metal to reach the temperatures necessary to make the solder flow. The solder bonds to the metal by capillary action (think water moving up a paper towel). Whether you are working with any of the various silvers, golds or base metals (bronze, brass, copper, etc.) the following techniques will be relatively the same. Each metal has it’s own peculiar characteristics though, which will slightly affect certain parts of the process. A few will be discussed in detail, later on.