All your videos are helpful. .I can't thank you enough (well maybe when I have my workshop properly set up and I'm doing more than restringing pearls. ..not to knock the pearls. ..any trade is good when you are starting out. ..I may actually make enough to subscribe to your Patreon thingy, I never actually noticed if you do, but you should know that you are helping a lot of people to do what they really want to do rather than just accepting the mind numbing 9-5 you give people like me hope that we can actually do something we love xx
I keep some in a mini patron tequila bottle. They're bottom heavy and the cork is user friendly. Drill the cork and stick a paint brush in, like a ball graver, and you're good to go.
Hello dear Soham from greece,i like your video very much,i have experience with metals but not copper,i have a forge and i want to tin my familys copper pots ,i want to ask you which commercial or homemade flux will be the best for that job.Thanks again,enjoy the summer.
Martin Rodrigue I agree & totally noticed it right away. He needs to use a clean brush for each 1 of the fluxes. He also contanimated the whole containers of the 2nd & 3rd by swirling the brushing in the liquid.
Ive mixed boric acid and borax with distilled before as flux but wasnt very consistent. Now I only use premixed. Its cheap, fast, and as long as it's mixed everyday I use it, it's perfect.
The thing is flux is not for cleaning the base metal should be clean already by phisically cleaning all pieces with a cleaner such as scotchbrite sand paper or what have you, All fluxes regardless of form be it in flux core wire flux coated rods or shielding gasses you name it are for the exclusion of the enemy OXYGEN, That's it
Nice Information For Beginners. Would Appreciate if You Could Let Us Know The Mixing Of Different Alloys To Make Various Karats Of Gold, & Gold Solder.
Dude you're a really good teacher and you thoroughly know your shit. You had me at "the bad old days" haha 😆 I'd like to learn more from you, you're a keen one I can tell. I'll bet you know a lot of real, crafty cool, nifty, useful wisdoms.
Ur vids are immensely helpful to me. My borax flux cone keeps crumbling badly. It's fairly new and I'm not using too much pressure. I'd be grateful for any advice on this problem. Many thanks.
Sir I want to thank you so much. I have a borax cone but do not have the borax dish. Do you know of anything that is readily available that I can use in lieu of buying the proper dish. Being on disability I need to find as many cheap alternatives as I can. Thanks so much for doing this video my friend. Your teachings are a blessing.
hi soham, sorry for all the questions hope you don't mind, Do you know your sanding stick, do you buy that or do you make that yourself ? thanks for your help
any chance of doing a vid, on the rolling mill, I know you have done one on embossing, I have just got one, and obviously you got the standard, and the ones for patterns, but the ones which makes the wire where the size goes from big to small, I was wondering what you would use them for, and what it does to the metal, do you start in the biggest and then move down to make it into finer wire ?? thanks soham your the man, there are other vids on here on rolling mills, but no one as good as you !
i work as a mechanic for a jeweler and he's not paying me to teach me how to be a jeweler but intelligent people tend to keep company and if you just watch people why they work and be quiet.... then get your own personnal once of silver on your own time one jewelers didnt have youtube till this century and everything was earned (shooting waxes should wear your thumbs out) watch gentlemen like this that master a trade and freely explain that if you heat to much your have to start over. Thank you for considering some people have never heated flux like that)t come to vegas mister harrison ill show you around
Hi there Shawn! did you end up finding a tray for your flux cone. I have a cone but not the dish. I was hoping that you let me now if you found something that will work so that I can get me one too. Thanks!! Mike
Hey Mike, I haven't yet tried but I do have a small mortar and pestle, so I figure I will try the mortar or is it the pestle, lol. I believe the dish part is called the mortar so I will try this and let you know. Soham suggested I use this and since I had access to one I will give it a go. Check back with you later.
Helpful video, though I noticed you didn't clean the brush in between different applications of flux types. Now I assume this really doesn't make a big difference, but as a "don't cross contaminate" type of guy I am it makes me question whether or not this had an effect that change the true outcome of that test in the end. I'm not criticizing per se, but more on the line of being inquisitive. Again helpful video and thanks for posting it.
Excellent video! Do you by chance know what makes Aluminum Flux so special and why I see aluminum flux/flux pastes going for (a minimum of) $18 + for just a 4 oz bottle? Would really like to see a future video on the properties of aluminum flux, if this is something you happen to know about or also specialize in(!?) Thumbs up and thank you so much for sharing!
After 8 years of your video, still its a reference in 2022 , thank you sir
All your videos are helpful. .I can't thank you enough (well maybe when I have my workshop properly set up and I'm doing more than restringing pearls. ..not to knock the pearls. ..any trade is good when you are starting out. ..I may actually make enough to subscribe to your Patreon thingy, I never actually noticed if you do, but you should know that you are helping a lot of people to do what they really want to do rather than just accepting the mind numbing 9-5 you give people like me hope that we can actually do something we love xx
Great video, very helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
should have used a different brush but still helpful thanks
At last, a pro explantion! Thanks!
I keep some in a mini patron tequila bottle. They're bottom heavy and the cork is user friendly. Drill the cork and stick a paint brush in, like a ball graver, and you're good to go.
Using the SAME BRUSH, 'dipping' into fluxes, shows us Can't Trust any outcome. ! = [
What are those Black spots, [lumps] in first two? thanks!
Karen O: My guess would be the flux eating away at the metal.
Thank you for the great refresher, as always, so generous and detailed with information. Excellent work!
Thank you.... Without people like you this information would surely die
Hello dear Soham from greece,i like your video very much,i have experience with metals but not copper,i have a forge and i want to tin my familys copper pots ,i want to ask you which commercial or homemade flux will be the best for that job.Thanks again,enjoy the summer.
Did you just use the same brush for all 3? That means the 2nd and 3rd test spots are a combination of 2 and 3 of the fluxes.
1:40 anybody noticed a man face in the flux pan?
You should of used 3 brushes or cleaned the brushes, each test is totally contaminated other than the first one.
cross contamination,,,,
Martin Rodrigue I agree & totally noticed it right away. He needs to use a clean brush for each 1 of the fluxes. He also contanimated the whole containers of the 2nd & 3rd by swirling the brushing in the liquid.
Can you use regular borax powder and water?
Ive mixed boric acid and borax with distilled before as flux but wasnt very consistent. Now I only use premixed. Its cheap, fast, and as long as it's mixed everyday I use it, it's perfect.
Hi.. Which flux is good for weld mild steel by silver solder?
Yeah. I'm a regular user of this for my silver work.
It is great in melting crucibles too ;-)
The thing is flux is not for cleaning the base metal should be clean already by phisically cleaning all pieces with a cleaner such as scotchbrite sand paper or what have you, All fluxes regardless of form be it in flux core wire flux coated rods or shielding gasses you name it are for the exclusion of the enemy OXYGEN, That's it
Nice Information For Beginners.
Would Appreciate if You Could Let Us Know The Mixing Of Different Alloys To Make Various Karats Of Gold, & Gold Solder.
Can't find the dish for the cone?
Dude you're a really good teacher and you thoroughly know your shit. You had me at "the bad old days" haha 😆 I'd like to learn more from you, you're a keen one I can tell. I'll bet you know a lot of real, crafty cool, nifty, useful wisdoms.
If I was to mix the borax & water into the dish, can any left over be bottled for next time or will it go off ?
I just found your channel and appreciate the information and support you provide. Thank you!
Sometime borax flux not work in a delicate piece when....booooom !!
Ur vids are immensely helpful to me. My borax flux cone keeps crumbling badly. It's fairly new and I'm not using too much pressure. I'd be grateful for any advice on this problem. Many thanks.
Thank you. Very helpful to understand borax flux 😊
Thank you 😊👍
muy mala traduccion asi los videos van perdiendo interes en otras lenguas, debido justamente a la pesima forma de traducir
Sir I want to thank you so much. I have a borax cone but do not have the borax dish. Do you know of anything that is readily available that I can use in lieu of buying the proper dish. Being on disability I need to find as many cheap alternatives as I can. Thanks so much for doing this video my friend. Your teachings are a blessing.
hi soham, sorry for all the questions hope you don't mind, Do you know your sanding stick, do you buy that or do you make that yourself ? thanks for your help
any chance of doing a vid, on the rolling mill, I know you have done one on embossing, I have just got one, and obviously you got the standard, and the ones for patterns, but the ones which makes the wire where the size goes from big to small, I was wondering what you would use them for, and what it does to the metal, do you start in the biggest and then move down to make it into finer wire ?? thanks soham your the man, there are other vids on here on rolling mills, but no one as good as you !
i work as a mechanic for a jeweler and he's not paying me to teach me how to be a jeweler but intelligent people tend to keep company and if you just watch people why they work and be quiet.... then get your own personnal once of silver on your own time one jewelers didnt have youtube till this century and everything was earned (shooting waxes should wear your thumbs out) watch gentlemen like this that master a trade and freely explain that if you heat to much your have to start over. Thank you for considering some people have never heated flux like that)t come to vegas mister harrison ill show you around
You used the same brush for all three fluxes?
Is this the same Borax that is used as a laundry detergent enhancer?
+frank_f Yes.
+Pablo Ricardo de Tarragon Thanks
frank_f
You're welcome. The 20 mules works well. Try also a mix of borax and boric acid. There are several DIY recipes of flux in Internet.
+Pablo Ricardo de Tarragon Thanks again!
Hi there Shawn! did you end up finding a tray for your flux cone. I have a cone but not the dish. I was hoping that you let me now if you found something that will work so that I can get me one too. Thanks!!
Mike
Where can we get Tenacity 4A flux? It appears that it's an Australian product and I can't find a supplier in the US.
Hello i am an indian working to be my menufuchr borax cone if you need borax cone and dish you can let me know
Very helpful thank you Sir
Thank you very much!!! Yes, it´s very helpful. Greatings from Venezuela
Very helpful. I have been adding normal tap water to my tanacity as it keeps getting lumpy. Any hints as to how to stop it?
Thay lying a lot on UA-cam, for gold smelting
Hey Mike, I haven't yet tried but I do have a small mortar and pestle, so I figure I will try the mortar or is it the pestle, lol. I believe the dish part is called the mortar so I will try this and let you know. Soham suggested I use this and since I had access to one I will give it a go. Check back with you later.
I guess I should be using distilled water for starters.
Thank you for your really helpful flux tips!
Clear explanation, good comparison.
can this flux be used on aluminum???
Good
Helpful video, though I noticed you didn't clean the brush in between different applications of flux types. Now I assume this really doesn't make a big difference, but as a "don't cross contaminate" type of guy I am it makes me question whether or not this had an effect that change the true outcome of that test in the end. I'm not criticizing per se, but more on the line of being inquisitive. Again helpful video and thanks for posting it.
Brillant my brother!
Cheers mate , Nice one
borax isnt just used for that its used in powder form for forge welding to to keep it from oxygendizing (i cant spell) for a clean weld kinda cool hu
very helpful ! thanks again
B
Very helpful, thank you!
is that a PCB?
U r great man
thank you
Thank you!
Excellent video! Do you by chance know what makes Aluminum Flux so special and why I see aluminum flux/flux pastes going for (a minimum of) $18 + for just a 4 oz bottle? Would really like to see a future video on the properties of aluminum flux, if this is something you happen to know about or also specialize in(!?) Thumbs up and thank you so much for sharing!
thanks
maybe check the thrift shops and look for a small mortar and pestle, possibly pottery would be rough enough.
i make them, there is a video on how to make them.