Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2912 to 2916 (9-13 March 2015)
Omega Entity:
I know more about the stuff I've used, but even that isn't as much as I'd like to. I've done oxy/acetylene back in the day in college, but more recently I've been doing soldering with a butane torch and copper or silver. I'm also not very good at it :-P
bhtooefr:
Soldering isn't welding - soldering is melting a low-temperature melt alloy to stick two pieces of metal together. Welding is melting two similar metals (and sometimes a rod of the same type of metal) together.
Omega Entity:
The way I do it it's a weld, which isn't the way it's supposed to go, lol. I did say I suck at it.
bhtooefr:
There's not enough heat to actually get a weld! Copper's melting point is 1085 C, and I run my soldering iron at 350 C usually. I think the highest it can even go is 500 C!
Omega Entity:
I work with wire, not large pieces of either copper or silver. If I can make copper headpins with it (melting the end to form a ball on the end of a length of wire) I assume I can get it hot enough to weld two pieces of the same wire.
Of course, it's possible that my wire isn't pure copper, and is really an alloy. It's hard to tell sometimes.
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