Archive for June, 2010

Using the Pro50 Torch to Bend Acrylic

For another project we are working on we have some 1/8″ clear acrylic we are looking at.  As long as it was on the desk I thought I’d try forming it with the Pro50 and the torch head.  Sure enough, after a pretty short time – 15 seconds? I was able to put a nice [...]

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Solder Paste on Zinc Die Casting

So, the question of the day was will the solder paste solder zinc alloy.  Zinc alloy is pretty broad range of materials and so the first answer was – I don’t know.  That’s pretty weak so we found a zinc die cast part we use and tested it.  This was a Zinc AG40A die cast, [...]

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Solder Paste on Stainless Steel

We had a question from a customer the other day about using the silver bearing solder paste with stainless steel.  Having never tried that yet we figured the best approach would be to test it and see.  We got some 302 stainless brackets we use and drilled a bit of a hole in it.  Then [...]

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