How To Use Paste Solder When Soldering Your Jewellery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มี.ค. 2018
- In this film, Andrew shows you how to use paste or syringe solder when soldering chains and jump rings.
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Andrew shows you many hints and tips that he has gained from his experience as a professional goldsmith.
Andrew Berry, a professional jeweller for 30 years, is the training director of www.AtTheBench.com, an award winning on line jewellery training website.
Just hearing about solder paste and this was a great video on how and when to use it. Thank you so much. I'm a newbie with soldering, but think I'll love it!
Thanks for this, successfully soldered my first jump rings after watching this 👍
Another timely tutorial. I have chain by the foot I need to add jump rings to. Hope I don't melt anything.
Andrew, I would love to see a tutorial on making the bracelet you are wearing. It would be fun to make all the silver embellishments and the clasp. Thanks.
Congratulations , you are really a master! Thanks for the classes.
I really appreciate Andrew's classes.
Thank you so much Andrew! This helps me in using my paste solder for the first time. You're so good at explaining. Thanks!
Thank you Mr Berry for these wonderful examples of how it's done . Cheers from California !
Great teacher, methodical and thorough!
Thanks Andrew, great video
A teacher by nature. Cheers!!!
Andrew is very talented.
wow this is exactly what i need to see! thanks!
@GingerTedder - I also tried to reconstitute some dried up paste solder with mineral oil, however, once I had the "gooey mess" mixed thoroughly it was impossible to judge the amount I needed for the job at hand. i.e. the carrier/flux paste just burnt up leaving not enough silver to complete the join.
Thank you! Very informative.
Thank you, thank you. I had been doing so many things wrong.. easy and precise instructions.
Andrew, ad you know, I love your videos.
I have only only little request. Would you consider posting links you refer to in them in the explanation section (or whatever it’s called) as well as in the actual video? That would make it a lot easier to view them without leaving the current video or having to scroll backwards looking for them again. Thanks!
Hello, Mr.Berry Great videos and you are made to teach. I like the way you tell us beginners and I too use it in my line of work, when im the boss and you say look do it my way no if's and's or but's and you will not have a problem soldering! 100 percent correct. there is a lot to that statement. It doesn't mean there is not another way to do it. but listen and listen some more and do it this way until you are good at it. It will save you tons of time and headaches believe the instructor. then after you do it this way and are good at it then ask me a question. that is a life long tip to leaning things but Dad didn't say it as nice as you put it. keep up the great work. it's worth me repeating your teachings I thought.
Another good one: I’ve never used solder PASTE, but you’ve convinced me to Try! Thank you so much...
Just bought my first seringe today , so thanks, very helpful Andrew. Down under, ours come in 8oz sizes.
Amazing channel, immensely grateful for the free education 🙌
Hi Andrew, very helpful video. I'm having a time trying to find the correct paste solder (for copper wire jewellery). Can you please let me know the brand, or whether you sell this on you site? Thank you.
wonderful explanation for us "beginners" when it comes to soldering jewelry. Looking forward to repairing a small piece I've promised to a friend. Thank you.......
Priceless!!!
Thank you for your channel..lol.. Just the thing I needed to remember the ins and outs of soldering...
Well Done my Friend!
Thanks! Very informative
Hi Anthony! I just discovered you and I am happy because you deliver great info.
I am just a starter, and I work with silver but also gold plated silver jump rings… I am wondering if I sold them with silver paste they won’t get the gold color they should? Is there a special paste for gold plated silver items?
awesome video, would you advise using sheet or paste solder to inlay small gold flakes? working on channel/sluicebox rings
As usual, fantastic information, done very well. I am wondering a few things (and thanks for the time you take to help us all):
1) why does paste solder cause pitting?
2) Why is it not strong (compared to other types of solder)?
3) Have you ever noticed how easy solder is not easy to use; does the higher zinc percentage in the alloy (as I've heard) cause the solder to puddle and stay mushy instead of flowing well?
4) Why not use it on larger pieces? Kim St. Jean (artist, teacher, author) seems to use it (paste solder) for everything she does, and she does a LOT! Do you have inferior results from using paste solder?
Knowing the "Why's and How's" of these methods, materials, etc. is super helpful for learning to make jewelry well. I thank you so much for your wisdom and your time!
Can you tell me ,how to solder silver ornaments (old)
I mean process (cleaning/soldering or using borax )
Thanks !
👍This looks easier than cutting snippets of solder or having to worry about flux because it's mixed in the solder. What kind of acid or pickling solution is used? I guess I need to do further research. Thanks so much for taking time to post these thorough tutorials! 🙂
I use a safety pickle or it’s called sodium bisulphate
excellent!! thank you!!!
Hello Andrew, thank you for nice tutorial... SUB for sure...
Thank you so much ist so cool this Tutorial
Thank you for this video. I am very new to soldering. I am working with copper wire. I have a solder paste with flux color match for brass, bronze, silver, copper or gold filled metals. It is not doing that. It looks silver after I am done. It also does not always flow even after fluxing. The solder hardens on me. How can I stop this? Is there a specific solder for copper that can be used? Can you use olive oil in a plastic cup instead of mineral oil in glass jar to store the unused portion in the tip?
Thank you for shering is so good tip.
Hi Andrew, I enjoy watching your videos and learning from you. Although I can't seem to find this particular paste you use. I would prefer to use borax cone but I can't get my hands on any at the moment. Could you share a website where I could find one?
you should be able to get powdered borax which would work just as well, just add a little water it to form a paste.
Thank you sooooooo much Andrew :)
This was actually quite helpful. I've been considering using solder paste to strengthen the links in a chain that would hold a stained glass piece.
So the acid dip is just for cleaning the surface afterwards?
Yes. The acid gets rid of any oxides on the surface
@@Atthebench can I use something other than acid? Maybe that's available around the house?
I have a question
your useing silver and I like working with copper do you know of any types of copper colored solder?
its been a real hassle and a waste of money finding anything close that actually works that way intended
thank you in advance
Hi Andrew, you ention rehydrating silver solder paste how would you do this as I just got mine and its very dry and hard to get out of the syringe?
Can you get different colour solder wire/ syringe paste? what do you use if you have something other than silver coloured jewellery like gold, copper, brass jewellery?
P.S Do You have any links to the tools/equipment you use, like the syringe past flux, pliers......? thank you
Great video. Thanks for making it. What is the strongest solder? Wire or sheet?
Wire or sheet solder made from the same alloy will be exactly as strong as each other. Solder isn't like glue whose strength holds things together. Instead it alloys with the metal being soldered and forms one solid piece of a new alloy. Silver solder is mostly silver so the piece will still pass assay. The solders with the highest melting temps, enameling and hard solder, have the highest silver content mixed with copper and/or maybe zinc to drop the melting temp. As you go through medium and easy there is less and less silver and more of the other things that drop the melting temp. Enameling or extra hard solder is usually about 80% solder, hard solder is usually about 75% silver, medium is about 70%, easy is about 65%, extra easy 60% or lower. When the solder alloys with the silver in the joint, proportionally the area now has less zinc or copper since any zinc or copper forms a molecular connection with silver in the joint. That means that the new alloy is like a harder solder and it will take more heat to remelt it. That's why we can do a bunch of hard solders on something without it falling apart.
All this also applies the same with gold and gold solder.
Patrick Horgan thank you for clearing that up for me. 👍😁
Patrick Horgan What a great explanation! Thank you very much for taking the time.
@@PatrickPoet im making some gold nugget stud earrings id like to know wich soldering paste is best.hope you can help me thanks
@@gatosgarage2179 I've never looked much into soldering gold anything since the materials are so expensive. I'm not your guy for _this_ question!
What are those shears called that you like for chain?
I'm about to make a mesh bib necklace with a jillion jump rings. Wish I had the past solder. Have you done a video on fusing jump rings?
Patrick Horgan No not yet but I could soon 👍🏼
That would be awesome:)
I’d like to know that, too - especially with chain mail type pieces such as this.
Great video, quick question: can you solder a jump ring that is attached to a silver plated bead wire?
No, using a torch will burn the silver plating off
@@Atthebench what would be a better solution? Thank you for your reply
Use a laser or Lampert PUK. Something that does not generate a lot of heat
Would you use this to fix a broken return to Tiffany necklace?
could you share where from i can purchase this silver solder paste and also applicable for gold
It's the same process to welding gold?
I will need to solder wire coming out of a resister to a the base of a 5mm round rod (for a colloidal silver generator). What solder and temperature should I use?
I am sorry but I know nothing about electronics so I am unable to help.
Hi Andrew I don't understand why some people say it is too dangerous to use a bench polisher ( buffs/brushes etc,) for chains
I was taught to do this and have been for years and have never had any issues .If there was a catch the chain would just be pulled form your grip the chain may be damaged although I can not see it causing injury
pijnto chains can bounce and flip in your face. I've had it. Too risky damaging also.
No different to polishing any other item if you are not diligent anything can throw back at you
pijnto Yes, but because chain is so fine and flexible, the chances of it catching and both breaking and flying back at you are a lot greater than with a solid piece of metal. It’s just not as easy to hold stable enough - certainly for beginners.
I personally even find the idea of using a flex shaft on a chain very scary as well, although I am sure I’ll try that before a bench polisher.
Think about a weedeater with chain flails...it gets ugly in a huge hurry.
So its useful in the right situation, but avoid it when you can. That is what I see. Cheers Andrew.
Andrew. Where can i get one those fine flame torches?
Alan Partridge it is a small chefs torch. Most jewellery tools suppliers sell them
would that stuff work for small gold items. or would it need to be gold solder?
The solder needs to be the same as the metal you are using
When you say not to use paste solder for larger areas because it is weaker, how large is larger? What about a ring and bail onto a bezel for a large stone? Would the stone be too heavy for a paste soldered joint?
That would be fine. Don’t use paste on ring shanks for example where the joint can easily be seen
What about hollow chains?
I often find my solder paste flames. Why?
I push a straight sewing pin into the end and stick the syringe in a zip lock baggie and never have issues with drying out
Hi. I just got my solder paster (it'd be my first time to use it), after 2 months (patience is truly a virtue:-) or more.
Do I need to supply my own syringe handle? What size (how many cc)? Thank you.
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God bless, Rev. 21:4
Exact silver solder to be used for 916hallmark chain.
Silver in %
Zinc/ Copper %
Or any metal to be added
For 1 kg silver solder.
How do you solder with gem stones attached
People who work with their hands are so much nobler than fuckn bureaucrats.
Have you any idea why my solder doesnt flow? the paste just goes hard and doesnt flow at all. I am using it on copper
Sounds like the copper is not getting hot enough and you should use extra flux
@@Atthebench should i do the soldering in the air or flat on the block?
Good video, but I’m getting so frustrated at this, my paste just seems to ball up and fall off ? Pretty sure I’m cleaning it good, i filed it clean, sprayed it with the flux, and did exactly what you just did in this video. Nope falls off, doesn’t even get silver looking.
Heat the object and not the solder. Or stop it from rolling off with a solder pick
How,if we want to soldering gold jewelry?
Hi . who can i making silver solder
Thanks for the classes.can I use 10k gold to make gold sorder
Can I use electric soldier with paste ??
No. Electric solder should never be used on silver nor gold
If Paste solder is used on 21 karat jewellery making, will it pass hallmark testing?
No it won’t pass. You can’t get 21 nor 22 solder paste.
@@Atthebench If I use glue soldering, then will it pass?
You mentioned that the paste solder dries up and that you reconstitute it but you didn't say what you reconstitute it with. I tried mineral oil and it just made a gooey mess.
some people have used lavender oil. If my syringe solder gets too hard i just put it in my lemel pot so i can send it off to the refiners to reclaim back the metal.
Andrew Berry What is a lemel pot?
@@wendyannh basically its a scrap pot/bowl/jar
Or use flush cut pliers
@ Andrew Berry - do you ever answer any of the questions asked? It doesn't look like it.
Jackie Chan hi. Yes I do try. This film was only posted a couple of days ago.
Some answers show up on his other videos, too.
What is the different between "gold paste" and flux?
Is it the same?
Plz
Gold pâté has tiny flecks of solder and flux all mixed together. Flux is just flux - you need to add solder
@@Atthebench thanks bro
Please give me the gull name