What is the best soldier to use (ratio) 85/15? What can I use to patina it a little darker, maybe towards a dark grey/black? What do you suggest I use to seal/clear coat the top of the table?
@@jakes1716 no , galvanizing is not a lead / zinc mix, there is no lead mixed in the process. The tiny bit a lead (0.5%) is actually an impurity of the zinc when melted. Even "pure " zinc sheet has small amounts of lead in it . It may be deemed "lead free", or lead content at safe levels. If it is melted, it has small amounts of lead in it. As for my original comment, galvanizing is a zinc coating.
What is the best soldier to use (ratio) 85/15? What can I use to patina it a little darker, maybe towards a dark grey/black? What do you suggest I use to seal/clear coat the top of the table?
Still can't get used to the way the American's pronounce "solder". Very strange indeed.
Do soldering lead? Effect in zinc ? By heating it with soldering Iron ?
What is the composition of the solder?
I would never have guessed that table top piece is zinc! Maybe zinc plated but it looks like stainless steel or something...really that is zinc??
yes Solid Pure Zinc Sheeting, much safer then a galvanized sheet
@@Rotometals what do you think galvanizing is? Its zinc.
@@jakes1716 no , galvanizing is not a lead / zinc mix, there is no lead mixed in the process. The tiny bit a lead (0.5%) is actually an impurity of the zinc when melted. Even "pure " zinc sheet has small amounts of lead in it . It may be deemed "lead free", or lead content at safe levels. If it is melted, it has small amounts of lead in it. As for my original comment, galvanizing is a zinc coating.
Could one just melt the Zinc and bond Zinc to Zinc?
That's essentially what welding is; You can solder the same alloys together, but (depending on the piece and type of alloy) may be more difficult.
That joint will have no strength at all.