Silver Soldering

[sunworksco]

I'm buying this kiln.

 

[shred]

Looks like a nicer version of the one I have. You can do lots of cool stuff with a little kiln like that.

 

[Jasonb]

I though it was for Hot stuff not cool

J

 

[Dan Rowe]

It's easy, but slow unless you keep the kiln hot. :-\

Have you tried silver solder with a kiln?

I have a programable controler that I use for wax burn out so I could write a ramp up and down cycle for silver solder, might need some expermentation.

Dan

 

[shred]

Have you tried silver solder with a kiln?

I have a programable controler that I use for wax burn out so I could write a ramp up and down cycle for silver solder, might need some expermentation.

Dan

Yeah, it took a couple tries to get tuned up, but it worked pretty well. I didn't do a lot of it though. If you ramp up with the parts in there from cold you may want to get one of the long-lasting fluxes designed for that sort of thing. Obviously you have to use solder pre-forms or solder pastes since you aren't going to be sticking a rod of solder in the vent port. or anything ;D

Same kiln works well for glass fusing, tempering tool steel & melting small amounts of Aluminum or bronze.

 

[sunworksco]

I have been collecting tools for doing lost-wax casting for jewelry and scale model parts.
I'm also looking at an electric crucible, hot wax injector and vacuum casting machine.
The vacuum casting machine does an excellent job of extracting all of the bubbles out of the molds and castings.

View attachment KerrLab Automatic Electro Melt.bmp

View attachment Vacuum EZ-CAST.bmp