On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:18:09 -0000, "Leon Heller"
wrote:


When I made a screwdriver on a metalworking course 40 years ago, I used
brass shavings mixed with flux (a blue paste). The molten brass flowed into
the joint between the blade and the handle very nicely.

Leon

Leon


I've heard of silver solder in a paste but not brass. Was this a *home
made* concoction, if so do you recall what was used for the paste flux
(all I know of is the powdered stuff) ?

Forger