About Soldering - Rings Things（钎焊-环和事情）.pdf

How to Solder Glass Pendants #68-007-17 About Soldering Solder is a confusing topic. There are two completely different soldering methods used in jewelry making, yet people rarely explain which type they’re talking about – much the way people say they spent the weekend simply “at the lake.” (If they are your friends, you do know which lake … and hopefully this post will help you make friends with solder!) Solder is a metal alloy that is melted to connect or coat metal pieces. Soldering is the act of melting and applying solder. The two soldering methods are: 1. Soldering with a torch. Often called hard soldering, brazing or silver soldering, although copper, brass, gold and other metals can be torch soldered. There are different grades of hard solder (which melt at different temperatures), and just to confuse things further, they are called easy/soft, medium and hard. There are also different solder formulas to match the color of various metals. If jewelry is made of silver or gold, it has to be torch soldered. Successful soldering requires heating the metal pieces, not just melting the solder, so if the piece is very large or thick, it’s probably torch soldered as well. 2. Soldering with a soldering iron. This is often referred to as soft soldering, and is used with base metals (like pewter) and plated metals. This is actually ‘tinning”, which means adding a layer of Poppy Field Pendant Necklace solder to a metal base. The solder is made mostly of tin and has by Mollie Valente a (relatively) low melting temperature. Soft solder is pewter or Mollie soldered two fold-over crimp ends (#41-254-1) silver colored. Never use a soldering iron with precious metal into the frame instead of jump rings jewelry: it will ruin the jewelry. Soldering glass frame p