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> From: Steve Shyvers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:32 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam
> Subject: Re: Flux and Brass (was NOT Silversoldering Stainless Steel)
>
> Royce,
>
> The tank I was w
At 01:31 PM 7/11/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Also many years ago when I worked on wooden boats I remember removing a
>small woodscrew from some trim on a boat's cabin. The screw was a pink
>color and didn't look very solid. I mashed the screw to dust between my
>fingers. My analysis was that the screw
Royce,
The tank I was working on was made of K&S brass strips. I believe that
these are "C-260" brass, which according to Small Parts Inc. is
nominally 70% copper and 30% zinc. (For "nominally" read "supposed to be".)
Many years ago a metallurgist colleague referred to brass as a scrap
metal.
OK, I have been following a lot of this discussion in the background and I
guess that my limited experience might help. In soft soldering non-ferrous
metals, the heat can be a major problem. When lead or zinc contacts something
like brass, zinc, copper, silver, and gold it has the adverse reac
This may be a "dumb" question, but are you sure of the alloy of the
"brass"? I've gotten snookered by thinking one metal was something
else. ie 1018 was O-1.
royce in SB
Harry Wade wrote:
At 08:17 AM 7/11/03 -0700, you wrote:
I promise to try the Sta-Silv on some brass again to see what th
At 08:17 AM 7/11/03 -0700, you wrote:
>I promise to try the Sta-Silv on some brass again to see what the effect
>is.
Steve,
This is all very strange because I wouldn't suspect that any of the
materials mentioned are agressive or caustic enough, either together or
seperately, even with heat, t
