Re: [TCML] DUMB QUESTION OF THE DAY

[Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can you use a silver dime? That might be easier than a modern dime.


--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Mark Olson <kc5gym@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Mark Olson <kc5gym@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] DUMB QUESTION OF THE DAY
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 8:55 PM
> Ed,
> 
> If you copper plate the parts then you can definetly soft
> solder them.
> Silver solder would be my first attempt at joining the
> parts, but they are
> kind of small
> to be waving an oxy-acetylene flame over.
> 
> Marko
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Phillips" <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 6:52 PM
> Subject: [TCML] DUMB QUESTION OF THE DAY
> 
> 
> >     I have an application in which I'd like to be
> able to SOFT SOLDER a
> > short piece of 0.050" tungsten wire to the rim of
> a dime.  This is for a
> > spark gap which will never get warm but where I need
> to prevent erosion
> > of the silver such as I'm getting now.  I've
> tried a Google search and
> > found hints, but only hints, that it may be possible. 
> I could copper
> > plate the stuff I think but not sure and also not sure
> if that would
> > make it solderable.  I could also, with a lot of work,
> tin it with
> > silver solder but that's by far the method of last
> resort.
> >
> >     Might also be possible to spot weld it? 
> Doesn't matter, don't have
> > the equipment.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ed
> >
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