Archive for Freesteam For collectors and enthusiasts of all steam engines          Freesteam Forum Index -> Model engineers Trojanhorse2 Question about flux One for the engineers: I've just taken my first succesful steps into silver soldering, but I made up rather too much flux. It dried up to a hard white crust, can I simply pound that into powder and reuse it? Spokesmann Cant help you on that one Moose, your plan of attack seems OK,my flux is in a small plastic container to stay 'wet' not sure if the stuff can have something added to it. Triplet should know or MF obviously!! MFSteam Re: Question about flux MooseMan wrote: One for the engineers: I've just taken my first succesful steps into silver soldering, but I made up rather too much flux. It dried up to a hard white crust, can I simply pound that into powder and reuse it? Try it, I see no reason why not. I always mix up the flux in the lid of the flux container, so I must be using previously wet flux and I have no problem with it. The water only makes the flux easier to apply and it has no chemical reaction with it. You can buy silver solder that has been coated in dry flux. Trojanhorse2 Thanks Ian - I'll just give it a go, what's the worst that can happen! Thanks for the wick BTW - brilliant stuff, it'll be pressed into action for STiA MFSteam MooseMan wrote: Thanks Ian - I'll just give it a go, what's the worst that can happen! Thanks for the wick BTW - brilliant stuff, it'll be pressed into action for STiA Christ that was quick. I take it all back what I have said in the past about the Royal Mail        Freesteam Forum Index -> Model engineers Page 1 of 1