Cadmium Silver Solder

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Cadmium silver solder.

What is the best composition for it. Hi everybody the video silver paths the art of filigree shows an artist preparing silver solder with cadmium silver and copper. However a few hours after soldering with it i ve felt achy and out of sorts. Serious health effects on the lungs and kidneys are the principal concerns.

In 2001 i took a job to silver solder three thousand parts made of stainless steel. He uses 3 g of cadmium powder silver and copper and mix all of them in his hand. Ii silver brazing alloys cadmium is an important component in quaternary alloys with silver copper and zinc in the lower temperature range of brazing alloys. Silver cadmium alloys wire sheet contacts oxide etc.

In there a real risk using cadmium. At 320 c and when heated above this temperature in air produces cadmium oxide fumes. At first i didn t realize what was going on. Health effects of cadmium in silver solders.

But it finally dawned on me that cadmium was the culprit. Choose from our selection of silver solder including brazing alloys without cadmium solder for stainless steel and more. Cadmium solder and flouride fluxes cadmium in solder and fluorides in fluxes can kill you. However it has given me a couple of scares.

Acute immediate effects initial symptoms from. You can send us the following silver cadmium scrap to be refined and recycled. Nimrod77 wrote is it possible to tell which silver solder contains cadmium and which doesn t. Silver brazing uses filler metals and alloys such as silver copper zinc cadmium etc.

Kappcad cadmium zinc solders are medium temperature alloys that provide strong corrosion resistant joints on most metals making them an excellent choice for soldering dissimilar metals these solders are often used in applications requiring higher temperatures and superior strength joints especially aluminum to aluminum and aluminum to copper joints in electronics lighting and. Need to use flux with stainless though. Zinc cadmium alloys are useful for soldering aluminium whilst cadmium zinc tin alloys are used for soldering magnesium. Afaik the silver solder i use is 2 ag and copper.

But cadmium is poisonous. Cadmium is a silver white ductile metal which melts. In stock and ready to ship. I want prepare a low melting point solder.

No flux needed when soldering copper the stuff the plumbers use on water or gas. I prefer cadmium bearing silver solder. At a dollar a joint it was an easy way to make a healthy chunk of money in three days at that point in time i had been metalsmithing for over 30. I thought i always used good ventilation.