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Gerald Miller Gerald Miller is offline
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Default Buying from Scrap yards?

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:59:03 -0500, Ignoramus10392
wrote:


Can you silver solder a silver bar? I think that it would be
unilikely?


IIRC, you should never, ever, use tin/lead solder on an item made from
silver because the solder becomes alloyed with the silver and forms an
alloy with all of the properties of puppy poop.

Anyway, I could give it a shot. Not sure if I can somehow get money
for this silver scrap.

I used to keep about 40 lbs of silver in form of bars, as investment,
it was a fun feeling.

Gerry :-)}
London, Canada