Nickle Silver

[Kludge]

After wandering the web for the requisite 40 days and 40 nights, I have found no source of nickle silver rod. What I want is 1/4" and smaller to make machine screws and some detail parts since it contrasts beautifully against brass, both plain and blackened. Um, the nickle silver is blackened, not the brass. It also machines beautifully and, like brass, isn't too shabby about being threaded down to .6mm. Due to how it'll be used, the individual pieces don't have to be that large so that may help.

Does anyone have any thoughts about sources or should I consider an alternative and, if so, what?

BEst regards,

Kludge

 

[scoop]

In England some sets of darts are made from nickel silver.They used to be fairly cheap so if you only need a small amount of it you may be able to get hold of a set to canniblise.Or perhaps find a company that makes them near you.Probably not much call for them where you live but you never know.

merry christmas regards Steve C.

 

[scoop]

Or try www.nogginend.com a rather strangley named English company who sell nickel silver in small diameter bar and ship worldwide.

Good Luck regards Steve C.

 

[Kludge]

Cool! Thanks, Steve. Noggin End ... I like that name.

I've seen dart parts sold but never thought about them as a source of much of anything. Hmmm ... the bodies are knurled too. That has to be useful in some way or another.

Best regards,

Kludge

 

[PTsideshow]

Crown Alloys brand Royal 120FC High Strength Nickel Silver Brazing alloy for torch applications. Here is the PDF specs page the 120FC is the flux covered.
The bare wire Crown 120 is the 36"long stuff is the stuff you want. It comes in 1/16,3/32,1/8,3/16,1/4" dia the 1/16,3/32, 1/8"dia was about $13.72 a pound in OCT.

The LWS shop had to order it. They don't sell retail from the company web site.
http://www.crownalloys.com/page39.pdf
http://crownalloys.com/ is the home page.

Most jewelry supplies company sell it in the above sizes in 6 inch long sticks packed in a plastic tub for hinge pins etc for a ridiculous price. I got some before The LWS ordered it for around $20.00 a tube
http://grobetusa.com/ you can try here to see if they have a distributor local to you.
You may also want to look thru the crown alloy catalog as the have any number of gas and TIG rod alloys that would work for making screws and rods,levers etc. I use them all the time for stuff other than brazing or welding.
They also have the Copper TIG rod in assorted sizes Not cheap either but handy for stuff.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

 

[Kludge]

Crown Alloys brand Royal 120FC High Strength Nickel Silver Brazing alloy for torch applications.

Cool. I have to go to a welding shop since I'm out of gas for my torch and need some rod anyway so I'll check this out.

Most jewelry supplies company sell it in the above sizes in 6 inch long sticks packed in a plastic tub for hinge pins etc for a ridiculous price.

I've seen brass like that but never nickle silver. What NS I have was from closed watch repair shops and none is larger than 1/16" or so. I don't have any jewelry supply houses here but anything with the name Grobet on it is going to be exensive even if it's a piece of scrap paper. I prefer my brass from other sources - several vendors who sell K&S Engineering's products, for example.

Thanks, Steve. THis is a huge help.

BEst regards,

Kludge

 

[PTsideshow]

Their web site is working this morning, http://grobetusa.com/ProductDescriptions/allpurposewiremixture.html

The grobet stores are franchise operations.

I haven't checked, but here http://www.ottofrei.com/
or here http://www.contenti.com/ for all things toolish and jewelry and watch making stuff.
And here is a monstrous site with very large PDF catalogs. They should also have it and some more exotic metals and profile shaped copper and other wire.http://metalliferous.com/ They have separate catalogs for metals,tools, books etc.
enjoy! ;D

 

[Kludge]

Thanks, Glen.

As I mentioned, Grobet tends toward being expensive ("tends toward" being an understatement but sounded good) but they have a good line. They're like Levin in that respect, though their lines are completely different.

Otto Frei and I have a nice relationship - well, part way - due to correspondence while I was setting up my drill press. (I'ts an older Frei precision drill press) They have some cool tools that got me drooling a few times which kind of made messy of my keyboard.

They other two I don't know but I tagged their sites and will go back when I have two (ore more) wits to bang together. It's 5 AM and I've been up battling demons for a while so being able to appreciate what I'm seeing isn't all that possible.

Is this the fun part?

Best regards,

Kludge

 

[Marinesteam]

Kludge,

Try searching for CA 770,

Nickel silver is a copper based alloy like brass, hence the similarity in machining.

http://www.metalassociates.net/copperbased.html has a chart of the shapes that they have available. Your local metals house should be able to source some.

http://www.onlinemetals.com/ has sheet available.

Good luck, hope this helps.

Ken

 

[Kludge]

Try searching for CA 770,
Nickel silver is a copper based alloy like brass, hence the similarity in machining.

It does indeed help, Ken. Thank you.

For the threaded goodies, I only need three sizes - 1/8", 3/16" and 1/4" diameter round rod. That, in turn, is determined by the three head sizes for them, and 1/4" will be a rarity. Okay, maybe 1/16" and 3/32" for special cases.

BEst regards,

Kludge

 

[woodchip85]

Hi just been strolling through, and saw this for nickle silver. Old horse bits are made of N,S, and will be stamped so, hope this will help some one els out there