Disaster- a wasted day Entry posted by markse68 November 17, 2019 1,122 views Share More sharing options... Followers 1 Ballcocks! 😞 Well you learn something new every day and I learnt today that you shouldn’t use aluminium formers to silver solder brass... It started off so well as well Guess I’ll be starting that again from scratch- ballcocks
Stu 47,654 Posted November 17, 2019 Oh no! It was looking so good in the first few pictures Mark. Hope you find the right way of doing it next time! 1 Link to comment
markse68 4,016 Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) Cheers Stu- the solder joint itself looked alright too haha I think I need to make a thin walled steel former and hope it doesn't solder itself to it next time- need something in there to keep the shape nice and accurate while soldering edit- dunno why I didn't think of it before- a pair of SS mudguard washers turned to dimension spaced on a bolt should do it- shouldn't stick to the solder either Edited November 17, 2019 by markse68 Link to comment
markse68 4,016 Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) Second time lucky- I ordered some ss mudguard washers and turned them to size this time and the soldering went perfectly I also discovered that the citric acid I bought to descale my kettle works great for removing borax flux 👍 Just need to not make a balls up of bending the edge over now...🤞 Edited November 23, 2019 by markse68 2 Link to comment
markse68 4,016 Posted November 23, 2019 Thanks Stu 😊 gave it a coat of hi-temp exhaust paint which seems about as matt as you can get (or I’ve found anyway) 1 Link to comment
Stu 47,654 Posted November 23, 2019 Wow, amazing job. That rim holding the mirror in is so neat, and evenly trimmed, how did you do that? 1 Link to comment
markse68 4,016 Posted November 23, 2019 Half round file Stu- one with fine teeth and gently and patiently- very easy to catch the edge and bend it. Here it is in the spider- I’m about to fit it to the tube- hope I didn’t mess up any measurements 🤔 4 1 Link to comment
MarkAR 2,312 Posted March 1, 2020 Well done, turned out good in the end. Very neat join and well done on the folded edge, that can be tricky to get right. 1 Link to comment
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