I was talking to my boss at lunch about soldering and he mentioned sheet silver solder. I didnt know there was such a thing. He said it comes in several thicknesses and is can be a time saving/ convienant item. Of course my mind quickly turned to what it could be used for in model railroading. I thought of cutting it into small sqares and usung it to solder feeders to track. Has anyone used it? Id like to hear some ideas for its use in model railroading.
Silver solder requires higher temps to use. Usually good for brazing and not genral electrical work.
Right now, I see no advantage having to cut up and place the small piece in place.
I have used a dab silver solder paste and very easy. Same type solder used in soldering SMD components on PC boards.
All depends on the application.
Most of the time I use the wire type solder that has the rosin flux in it.
Rich
I use it for making jewelry. Note that it also comes in different temperatures. That is there are pieces that melt at different temperatures so that things soldered to the ring/bracelet later will not necessarily melt things that were soldered earlier. One starts working with HOT solder and finishes using cool solder.
This is where old issues of MR come in handy - and I mean OLD - liek when if you wanted more than a few varieties of locos you built them yourself or took a stock one and added detail parts to mak the one you wanted. There was a good article on using multiple temperatre solders to attach a myriad of detaisl to a loco boiler. A sort of work in layers approach, attaching the base parts iwth the high temp stuff, the gradually working down with lower melting temperature solders to attach more parts without the first ones falling off. This was also before the common availability of resistence soldering rigs, which work around the problem by only heating the immediate contact area, and of course modern adhesives that can securely join metal to metal, no heat required.
–Randy