Cadmium Silver Solder

I want prepare a low melting point solder.

Cadmium silver solder.

At first i didn t realize what was going on. Flux is necessary for brazing to remove and prevent reformulation of surface oxides on the base metals. Silver cadmium alloys wire sheet contacts oxide etc. I am proof of that.

But cadmium is poisonous. Afaik the silver solder i use is 2 ag and copper. Choose from our selection of silver solder including brazing alloys without cadmium solder for stainless steel and more. Cadmium is a silver white ductile metal which melts.

Silver brazing uses filler metals and alloys such as silver copper zinc cadmium etc. He uses 3 g of cadmium powder silver and copper and mix all of them in his hand. At 320 c and when heated above this temperature in air produces cadmium oxide fumes. Need to use flux with stainless though.

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. In there a real risk using cadmium. However a few hours after soldering with it i ve felt achy and out of sorts. Hi everybody the video silver paths the art of filigree shows an artist preparing silver solder with cadmium silver and copper.

No flux needed when soldering copper the stuff the plumbers use on water or gas. What is the best composition for it. Silver brazing produces strong sealed leak proof joints on. Health effects of cadmium in silver solders.

In stock and ready to ship. Cadmium solder and flouride fluxes cadmium in solder and fluorides in fluxes can kill you. You can send us the following silver cadmium scrap to be refined and recycled. 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.

Serious health effects on the lungs and kidneys are the principal concerns. I prefer cadmium bearing silver solder. Zinc cadmium alloys are useful for soldering aluminium whilst cadmium zinc tin alloys are used for soldering magnesium. 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. But it finally dawned on me that cadmium was the culprit. Nimrod77 wrote is it possible to tell which silver solder contains cadmium and which doesn t. In 2001 i took a job to silver solder three thousand parts made of stainless steel.