Learn About the Different Types of Solder for Stained Glass

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All right, so we will talk about solder. What is solder? It is a low melting point metal; it is generally an alloy of two metals, lead and tin, the lead is what gives it a low melting point. Solder, you will find when you go shopping for it, there are a lot of different kinds and they are not all really suited for stained glass. For stained glass it is good to have a large diameter solder such as this, I mean this is, looks like a, oh a, this is well, I don’t know looks like it is about an eighth inch in diameter so it is kind of a nice thick solder and it is also sixty percent tin and forty percent lead which is also a really good kind of percentage especially for doing foil work. You can also find it in fifty-fifty which is maybe better for doing lead and lead can but um, so find a high diameter, sixty-forty lead and then the last thing is, is you will that some solders that are sold for other purposes have a core and you can usually read it right on the label, have a core of either rosin or acid and you kind of don’t want to use those, because they just don’t really work that well with stained glass, they work well for other applications but when you shop for solder just remember that not all solders are created equal. I mean you will find some solder, solders that have a lot thinner diameter on the piece that comes off the spool and so obviously you need to kind of need to add a lot more heat and melt a lot more of it to get the same size bead. So that is why it is kind of nice for stained glass to have kind of a thicker diameter solder. Sixty-forty tin to lead is a pretty good proportion, you don’t want to use rosin core or acid core. It generally comes on a spool like this; this one is about half empty so there would have been more on this one when we started. And so we’ll show you later on in the series how to use it but that is what you need to know about solder.

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