Broken Bayonets (1 Viewer)

[glossman]

we use a soldering iron.
Take your soldering iron, solder, and the solution ZnCl2.
Apply a drop of solution on both surfaces, take solder. by soldering iron. Contact both parts and touch them for 1 second by soldering iron.
Do not be afraid
The solution is instantaneous boil and evaporate, but the details will connect

Hello Igor,

Your method sounds fast and effective.

However, I think good results come with practice and experience.

Can you post step by step pictures ?

Thanks, Raymond.

 

[Igor]

I promise to make photo on Monday
Find zinc chloride in powder or in solution. At 100
gram of water should take 40 g of ZnCl2

 

[Obee]

Igor,

I've had no luck with soldiering on toy soldiers.... it seems to melt the metal, so I have used other menthods involving glue and metal pins.

I'd love to see your menthod, so images would be WONDERFUL

John

 

[Igor]

Igor,

I've had no luck with soldiering on toy soldiers.... it seems to melt the metal, so I have used other menthods involving glue and metal pins.

I'd love to see your menthod, so images would be WONDERFUL

John

May be you use not correct soldering alloy?

I use an alloy: 25% Tin / Lead 25% / 50% Bismuth ...
The melting point is 100 degrees Celsius -

 

[Igor]

I use an alloy: 25% Tin / Lead 25% / 50% Bismuth ...
The melting point is 100 degrees Celsius -

 

[glossman]

Igor,

Thank you very much for the photographs.

You need a steady hand.....perhaps an assistant would help when starting out.

It looks straight forward enough, but I think practice needed.

Raymond

 

[Igor]

Igor,

Thank you very much for the photographs.

You need a steady hand.....perhaps an assistant would help when starting out.

It looks straight forward enough, but I think practice needed.

Raymond

Of course the practice is necessary.
Shown work is done by one person. I have photographed.
We cast figures like the KIT and assemble them without glue
ONLY SOLDERING

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Of course the practice is necessary.
Shown work is done by one person. I have photographed.
We cast figures like the KIT and assemble them without glue
ONLY SOLDERING

Which is why I never have to repair any of my Niena figures!!

Thanks, Igor!

 

[Obee]

May be you use not correct soldering alloy?

I use an alloy: 25% Tin / Lead 25% / 50% Bismuth ...
The melting point is 100 degrees Celsius -

Igor,

thanks for the images they are wonderful......

It seems that I use a 50/50 mix of lead/tin as solder, which is hotter, hence my problems with mealting the figures..... now how to get Bismuth into the solder ????

I'll see if I can get any commercially here in Australia...

Thanks again,

John

 

[Igor]

Igor,...

.... now how to get Bismuth into the solder ????


Thanks again,

John

Bismuth is possible to dissolve in an alloy tin-lead also as sugar can be dissolved in water