OK, I ran the test, put the end of some 14 gauge .999 silver wire into some Daley H-20 acid solder flux. It was left for 3 days at approximately 20 C temperature.
The result is exactly what I expected, the silver was not affected by the flux at all, it did not even discolor. Marshall Harold MacDonald wrote: > 'way back in the early forties ,I worked in the sheet metal trade doing work > for the military.This entailed making steel waterproof containers.For > galvanized steel,the joints were treated with Muriatic acid [hydrochloric] > to cut the zinc for soldering.For stainless steel soldering the muriatic > acid was "cut" with pure zinc to make zinc chloride.For copper cleaning we > used Sal-ammoniac,this let us tin the surface.In later years I swung over to > the electrical trade and mostly used a pre-mix soldering flux paste.Then > acid core solder was used a lot,but not for electrical,radio or TV > connections,which was resin core. > Hope this helps > Harold > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
