Re: Greetings and salutations...
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:29 pm
So with my trial ferrules left at work for the long weekend i looked around and realised that i still hadn't finished a few things.
For a little while I've been wondering if bakers flux will work soldering stainless to copper, everyone seems to say Comweld965 is the only one to use.
Seeing as bakers works so well for copper and i had some stainless to try it on i figured it couldn't hurt to give it a go.
Seems to do the job, stays hot for a long time so you actually need to quench it if you need to reposition the work piece, the first go i had at it rolled off when i picked it up while still hot.
I will file the blob off another day to check on the bond strength.
After a bit of diddling around getting it as square by eye and pointing in the right direction i made the final join required to finish off my parrot.
Now because I drilled the hole a bit high on my cone I had to fill the bottom of the parrot a bit with solder so that a minimal amount would sit in the top after I finished the run.
While i was out in the shed i figured i might as well finish off my RC.
So after about 7mins of warming it up the solder started to want to flow so i made the first connection.
I was going to stop there for the night with the RC and work on my parrot, and i started to but came to the conclusion that all the gas i had used to get it to working temp would be wasted so i stopped messing with the parrot and made the second connection.
Its the top one in this photo and you can see i wasn't looking at the whole joint for about 2sec and it started to run away from me, but it will all clean up.
So there you have it all i need to do now is commit to a method of flanging and attach them and the RC will be complete.
For a little while I've been wondering if bakers flux will work soldering stainless to copper, everyone seems to say Comweld965 is the only one to use.
Seeing as bakers works so well for copper and i had some stainless to try it on i figured it couldn't hurt to give it a go.
Seems to do the job, stays hot for a long time so you actually need to quench it if you need to reposition the work piece, the first go i had at it rolled off when i picked it up while still hot.
I will file the blob off another day to check on the bond strength.
After a bit of diddling around getting it as square by eye and pointing in the right direction i made the final join required to finish off my parrot.
Now because I drilled the hole a bit high on my cone I had to fill the bottom of the parrot a bit with solder so that a minimal amount would sit in the top after I finished the run.
While i was out in the shed i figured i might as well finish off my RC.
So after about 7mins of warming it up the solder started to want to flow so i made the first connection.
I was going to stop there for the night with the RC and work on my parrot, and i started to but came to the conclusion that all the gas i had used to get it to working temp would be wasted so i stopped messing with the parrot and made the second connection.
Its the top one in this photo and you can see i wasn't looking at the whole joint for about 2sec and it started to run away from me, but it will all clean up.
So there you have it all i need to do now is commit to a method of flanging and attach them and the RC will be complete.