Store for Solder?
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The Source (aka formerly Radio Shack) Some of them stock silver solder.
Acklands (may require an account) In the catalog with the welding supplies.
Air Liquide (or any other welding supply outfit)
Some of the places that stock the BernzoMatic line of propane torches and accessories will have it. Look for the bags with three or four rods for various purposes. Check CTire or Home Depot.
Air conditioning guys use it to join household A/C lines. Yellow pages, under Air Conditioning Supplies.
Or get a Brownells catalog and see what they have (lots!)
If you have oxy-acet, the welding places are probably the best. They may require that you buy a certain minimum qty. If the rods are not flux coated, you will need flux too.
Cheers
Trev
Acklands (may require an account) In the catalog with the welding supplies.
Air Liquide (or any other welding supply outfit)
Some of the places that stock the BernzoMatic line of propane torches and accessories will have it. Look for the bags with three or four rods for various purposes. Check CTire or Home Depot.
Air conditioning guys use it to join household A/C lines. Yellow pages, under Air Conditioning Supplies.
Or get a Brownells catalog and see what they have (lots!)
If you have oxy-acet, the welding places are probably the best. They may require that you buy a certain minimum qty. If the rods are not flux coated, you will need flux too.
Cheers
Trev
Steve David
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Any plumbing supplier has them, a very popular brand is Masters, come in nice long sticks.
do you want real silver solder (silver brase) 1100 *f or low temp silver solder 450*f? Low temp is sold as lead free solder by big box stores. Silver solder or braze is sold by welding and machine shop supply stores.
Remember to dimple the surfaces to be silver soldered to leave room for the solder. If you don't leave clearance the solder job will fail. 0.001" to 0.002" can be done with a small centre punch.
You will also need the surfaces very clean, as well as a heat source that is hotter than a propane plumbers torch.
One of the guys I hunt with used to do silver solder under a dissecting microscope with a torch made from a hypodermic syringe.
You will also need the surfaces very clean, as well as a heat source that is hotter than a propane plumbers torch.
One of the guys I hunt with used to do silver solder under a dissecting microscope with a torch made from a hypodermic syringe.
I see that the answers are varying in terms of hardware to proper welding supply outlets. Buckbrush answered correctly by asking what sort of silver soldering you're planning on doing. Silver solder comes in probably a dozen or two different alloys depending on if you're after low temperature silver bearing normal tin-lead-silver alloy to jewelry silver and up through a wide number of variations in alloy to where you get the silver brazing that requires the joint to be heated to a dull red.
You'll want to tell the nice folks at home more about what sort of solder you're after or what you want it to join and what sort of loads it'll need to withstand.
You'll want to tell the nice folks at home more about what sort of solder you're after or what you want it to join and what sort of loads it'll need to withstand.
Hehheh!,
Just as a "neener-neener-neener" out at you all, I picked up a tube of 46% silver, cadmium free, food grade silver solder, 65ksi strength, from my next door neighbor. He had a garage sale, and couldn't sell a 1kg tube of the stuff for $2, so he gave it to me.
You really never know when fortune will smile upon you!
BCRider has it on the nose, though. You have to know what you intend to do with it, and how you intend to do it, in order to pick the most appropriate material to use.
Cheers
Trev
Just as a "neener-neener-neener" out at you all, I picked up a tube of 46% silver, cadmium free, food grade silver solder, 65ksi strength, from my next door neighbor. He had a garage sale, and couldn't sell a 1kg tube of the stuff for $2, so he gave it to me.
You really never know when fortune will smile upon you!
BCRider has it on the nose, though. You have to know what you intend to do with it, and how you intend to do it, in order to pick the most appropriate material to use.
Cheers
Trev
