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     Lucas Tinkerer Username: Lucas Post Number: 44 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
Glenn is on the money. About ten years ago I did some testing on silver soldered joints and in most cases the construction, the steel, would fail before the silver soldered joint would. The size of the seam must not be more than 0,05mm max,or the joint will be very weak. Castolin specifies a seam between 0.02 and 0.05 mm. The failures of the soldering joints we encountered were mainly due to too large a seam or a "cold" joint, when properly soldered the steel would shear off where the construction was at its weakest. |