Harris Safety-Silv 56% 1/16 Silver Solder Brazing Alloy 1 Troy Ounce, 75310 5631

This is the silver solder you need. Costly but needed for long lasting work.

Great product , will buy again.

It’s silver solder

Great silver wire for brazing medium to small parts. Best used with a small torch. I used Oxy-Ace but should also work fine with Oxy-Pro.

Just learning to silver solder from yourube videos, saw this product recommended and gave it a try, soldering some thin brass parts together (0.025" and 1/32"). You will need to purchase flux separately, but my first test went well enough that the second solder joint was installed in my clients project. Two thumbs up.

I use silver solder a lot where I work. To join carbide to steel, steel to steel, brass to steel, well lets just say if you need two metals joined I know how to do that. So I am very good at working with all silver solder products.I used this at home to give a keychain skull a silver coat. I also used to mend some old broken jewelry. with the 56%silver this is not the ideal solder for steels or brass or copper. Just because it's costly. If the silver color is not needed I would use a solder with a lower silver content.The most important things to know are the flux and the temp the target metal must be to get this product to flow across the desired area.If the metal that you wish the silver solder to flow to is too cool in temp, the solder will bead up. This is because you melted the solder with out the target metal heated to the melting point of the solder.With the right flux and preheated metal you will get the solder to flow out easy.One this you should know about the flux is try to keep it free of contaminates such as oil, dirt, soot or oxides. This can cause the solder not to bond the the target metals, even thou it may seem to be holding, they can detach with a few pounds of force.

I needed to replace a hose spigot handle for a spigot which has a round, fluted stem for the handle. There's only one replacement for this (old style) handle, and it's customer ratings are poor.I decided to make my own from a rod and a nut. I silver brazed the nut to the rod after I had drilled a hole though the nut.Then I placed the new "handle" on the spigot stem, and drilled through the hole in the nut, through the stem, and out the other side of the nut. A nail, pushed through the nut/stem and then bent, fastens the handle to the stem. I used less than an eighth of an inch of Harris Safety Silv (with their Sta Silv flux) to accomplish the task.I didn't know about Safety Silv until I watched YouTube's video channel "The Crafsman" (no letter "t") episode on silver soldering (actually brazing, since it requires more heat than soldering).Is makes a very strong joint!

At first I could not get the tiny jewelry parts hot enough to melt the thick solder without destroying the part. Then I hammered the end of solder flat and it worked fine. Using butane pencil torch.