crossthread
Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2004
- Location
- Richmond,VA,USA
I took some Non Magnetic SS to my buddies house to use his surface grinder (I don't have one as I don't have much call for one). These were 1/8" sheets so I had to fixture them without using a magnetic chuck. I told my buddy I would just temporarily soft solder them down to a mild steel plate and he could grind them. He told me I couldn't solder this grade of SS and I told him I could if you use an old trick I learned when I was working in a machine shop in Hamburg. Take a Dremel or a Fordham type grinder and chuck up a medium grit stone. Preheat the stone a little ( I use a small propane "pencil" torch) and then "load" it with soft solder by grinding a piece of solder (I use 60/40). Lightly grind into the metal you are trying to solder. Just scratch the surface. You can then soft solder the plate down. This works on ceramic, tungsten, aluminum, SS, titanium and probably just about anything you can think of. Might come in handy some day for ya.