I've never used it, but I've heard lots of folks ADORE it. They seem to use it just for regular soldering work, apparently keeps down on the firescale. I've never gotten the impression it eliminates pickle, just minimizes the risk of actual firescale, and probably minimizes regular oxidation as well. I'd think it would be more useful for larger areas of silver, where you're more likely to get bad firescale, not little wires. Again, though, I haven't actually used it.
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From: filigree@yahoogroups.com [mailto:filigree@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeanne Rhodes-Moen
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:11 PM
To: filigree@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [filigree] Firescoffa lot will depend on whether you have to reapply it before a new round of soldering or if it can work the whole time...in which case, you could open the spray bottle (since it's not aerosol, and dip the filigree pieces..or even spray it in a small bowl and dip the filigree pieces in the liquid, but how fast it evaporates may be another question.
On 1/23/12 5:30 PM, Lauren wrote:Maybe that's how they can justify the expense?Key words here... "simply SPRAY it on"... if I could think of a way to capture the WASTE of what you lose when you're spraying, rather than, for example, painting on paste flux, I *might* be able to do the math on time saved vs. the exorbitant cost of the stuff.On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Jeanne Rhodes-Moen <jeanne@...> wrote:
I have not tried it but from the description at Rio: http://www.riogrande.com/Product/Firescoff-Ceramic-Flux/504031
I think it is meant more for repair work, where you have to protect stones and save time repolishing etc. I don't know if you can do more than one round of soldering per coating, but you could contact Rio's tech/product department and see what they say on that, they are usually very helpful. My other issue is even on sale, it is $9 for 1 ounce....and if you do have to reapply it for more than one round of soldering, it's going to disappear quickly. Try it if you want though....and let everyone know what you find out...but I would contact Rio about using it for this kind of work as it sounds more like it's geared toward repair work. It could, however be useful for those annoying times when you've finished your piece, set a stone and one of your solder joints comes undone.
Jeanne
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On 1/23/12 9:10 AM, Monica Y. wrote:Has anyone tried Firescoff? It's on sale in RioGrande website. I was honking of trying it out because the description sounds good. Not needing pickle would be great!
Thanks!
Monica
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