So, I managed to split a coin making a coin ring. Im gonna go ahead and try this method to put the coin back together, will post a video. Waiting on the silver solder to arrive.
Great rare tutorial but would that be as easy as making it in brass? also 1.5mm thick I believe brass is a bit stiffer than silver, it solder OK but when trying to round it it breaks Any ideas? Hope to hear from, thanks in advance:)
You'd have to give it some hammering, achieving a nice effect as well as rounding the edges. I hope you weren't waiting for five years for the reply from the owner of the video! 😂😂😂 I also hope you're an accomplished jeweller ! 🤗
@@silverghost4206 yes there are very different types of it, some can bend some will break as they bend, also there is a special brazing rods for them, silver brazing will be so weak compared to the proper ones
Is it better to just use flux to solder or do you have to add some kind of silver to it ? If you do, what’s the best thing I can solder silver rings ? I’ve seen people use hard silver soft silver or jst flux or the round wire silver. Can I please know what works best pleaseeee
There isn't really a 'best' for all situations. That said, I use hard solder 90% of the time. But sometimes I use soft paste solder. If you're just using flux then what you're doing is called "fusing" rather than soldering. It is the best thing to do sometimes. I would say practice all techniques and see what works best for you!
@@MatBrown thank you for replying to me 🙏🏼. i was using hard silver too without flux. i m trying to make a cuban ring but if i just use paste, it breaks when i try to twist it to make it into a cuban. so i got the hard silver, i cleaned the chain good but the silver solder still doesnt want to join the opening i made to do the cubans. i get that just to fix the ring i can just use the paste but im trying to make it and the pase is not that strong to keep the joints from breaking. any suggestions please ?
Hi, I’m learning to be a self taught silversmith, how come you didn’t pickle the ring ? I’ve usually seen people do it after soldering. Not saying you are wrong in any way just asking for educational purposes. Thanks :)
I was going to polish it, so pickling would be a waste of time. The polishing process removes the oxides just as easily for a very plain, simple ring like this. If it had more intricate bits on it, where polishing would take more effort, I'd probably pickle. But as I was just going to hit it with some sandpaper anyway, there wasn't much point. Also in this case - and I can't entirely remember because it was a while ago - it might have been fine silver instead of sterling, which is a lot cleaner to work with.
People will tell you that you need lots of different types of solder but to be honest I only ever use hard solder and it's never been an issue. I suggest you use whatever works best for you, be that wire or sheet or paste; hard or medium or easy. It's all strong, it's all perfectly good at joining stuff up.
Solder is much, much easier - but you can use silver as a weld filler. It's tricky because your wire will melt at the same temperature as the surrounding metal, so when one bit melts, all of the area will be at or near melting. It can be done though, and if done well can give a better result than soldering.
if I can ask questions, what kind of flux did you use, and did you sand the inside after. I did not see you do that? And the solder, did you use wire? the special silver solder wire? Thank you for your time
I'll be honest, I have idea what kind of flux that is. The bottle has been in my workshop for years and the label long since faded to nothing. They're all pretty much the same anyway, so don't worry about it. I don't really bother with flux these days anyway, just make sure the metal is nice and clean and you're fine. I did sand the inside, you can see some of it with the yellow sanding disks, but I may have done some off-camera too. The solder is silver sheet solder from a jewllery supplies, I think it's 'hard' solder. Cut little bits off with some snips or a saw.
I'm a steel fabricator and this process of molten metal flowing into a joint is called capillary action not being a smartass but if you need to make further enquiries on this process that is what it is actually called
Forth video I've watched. None mention the type of solder used, the type of flux used or the type of gas used. Why the big secret? Weird. Taught *dozens* of people how to solder electronics: solder types, flux options, and temperature are critical to sound connections. .
It's not really a secret, if you were buying supplies to do this with the options would be rather more obvious. But just to be clear, this is silver solder, not electrical. Much higher melting point and it's mostly made of silver rather than tin. It gives stronger joins, it's mostly invisible when joining silver - and you definitely can't melt it with an iron. You can choose which you prefer - hard, medium, soft; sheet, wire or paste - they have various plus and minus points which vary depending on the work you're doing. Any jewellery supply place will sell you some and any search engine will explain the differences. The gas doesn't matter as long as it's over the melting point of whichever solder you have, you can do this sort of soldering with a cheap butane cook's torch, a plumber's MAPP torch, an oxy/propane or oxy/acetylene or hydrogen flame, or something else if you have that on hand. Flux is really just for people who haven't prepped their joints properly, I don't use it most of the time these days. I have no idea what sort is in that bottle. Clean your metal right and you don't need flux.
@@MatBrown thanks Mat. Is it possible to add this silver to the rim of an old silver medal? I have an old medal off ebay that has had its rim removed and i want to put it back....
No, that's electrical solder. You want something like this: www.ebay.ca/itm/Silver-Solder-wire-Easy-8-inch-22-gauge-65-silver-content-1325-melt-flow-/272175266780?hash=item3f5ee8fbdc:g:fdEAAOSw8sBW6xtZ Look at the melting point, if it's 600-800C range and the silver content is 65-80% then you're looking at jewellery solder. If it's a few percent silver and the melting point is in the low hundreds then it's electrical solder.
Great video...horrid music. Never use music. Too subjective. One viewer will hate it, another add to his "horrid Techno dancebeat" playlist. Very much like the speed up playback...no one needs to see demos in real time. Well done!
The worst bit is that there's absolutely no way you can control the sound coming out of your computer. There's no volume control on RU-vid's video player, no way for Chrome to mute tabs, no system volume controls in your operating system, nothing at all. You're basically just stuck with three minutes and fifty seconds of music you don't really like. I feel awful for you. If only there were something I could do to help..
