Can nichrome be soldered?
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Posted by C. Nick Kruzer on June 29, 2008, 9:19 pm
Please log in for more thread options Can nichrome be soldered to copper? insula | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John Popelish on June 29, 2008, 9:45 pm
Please log in for more thread options Ordinary silver solder will bond to both metals. But you have to keep the soldered joint well below the softening temperature of the solder for the joint to last. -- Regards, John Popelish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Phil Allison on June 30, 2008, 1:09 am
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"John Popelish" >
> C. Nick Kruzer wrote: > >> Can nichrome be soldered to nichrome?
>> Can nichrome be soldered to copper? >
> Ordinary silver solder will bond to both metals. ** Better define just what that is - John. Cos folk will imagine all kind of stuff - like silver brazing and lead free solders that have a smidge of silver in them. > But you have to keep the soldered joint well below the softening
> temperature of the solder for the joint to last. ** Or go for silver brazing with a small flame torch. Long as that " copper " is not tissue thin PCB track. ..... Phil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by C. Nick Kruzer on June 30, 2008, 6:40 am
Please log in for more thread options Hi John,
C. Nick Kruzer wrote: >Can nichrome be soldered to nichrome?
>Can nichrome be soldered to copper? John: >Ordinary silver solder will bond to both metals.
>But you have to keep the soldered joint well >below the softening temperature of the solder >for the joint to last. Thanks for the the excellent soldering tips. I've used silver solder for putting together copper pipe. It's a little more expensive than ordinary electronics solder (lead/tin/rosin core), but I'll only need a little for the small wire job I have. insula | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John Popelish on June 30, 2008, 9:48 am
Please log in for more thread options C. Nick Kruzer wrote:
> John Popelish wrote:
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>> Ordinary silver solder will bond to both metals.
>> But you have to keep the soldered joint well >> below the softening temperature of the solder >> for the joint to last. >
> Thanks for the the excellent soldering tips. I've used silver solder for > putting together copper pipe. It's a little more expensive than ordinary > electronics solder (lead/tin/rosin core), but I'll only need a little > for the small wire job I have. I think I may have misused the term silver solder. I should have said "silver braze", since I am not talking about a sliver bearing (i.e. 2% silver) low temperature tin lead solder (that you can use with a soldering iron), but with a silver alloy braze that you use with a flux and a torch. I think the high silver alloys that contain a little nickel are good at wetting both stainless steel and copper, and nichrome is really a form of stainless steel. However, there are a huge number of silver braze alloys available, and not all are suitable for joining copper and nichrome. http://www.brazing.com/products/Braze_silver/ http://www.silvaloy.com/hiag.php -- Regards, John Popelish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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