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It is very easy to spend all your energy in the home metalworking workshop trying to find clever ways of making new tools and setting up your home workshop so that all your tools such as the mini-lathe and the bandsaw are easy to use and efficent.
However, sooner or later you need some projects. Some things to make. Something to show for all your engineering investment! You may have purchased your hobby home metalworking workshop equipment for a specific purpose such as radio control car racing or astronomy. If this is the case then there should be no shortage of things you need to make. It is worthwhile keeping a list of potential mini-lathe projects. There are an endless list of things you want to make on your mini-lathe, here are a collection of articles on items that I have made in my home workshop. A design and steps for making a chuck key Actually, the easy way to make a chuck key is just find some square stock of the right size and stuff a handle on it.
Notes on Soldering Silver. Notes on Soldering Silver Silver is joined by a process that silversmiths call soldering by convention, but that metalurgists call brazing.
True soldering involves only wetting of the bulk metal by the solder, essentially a surface process. Brazing is done at higher temperature, and involves diffusion exchange between the bulk metal and the braze. Sterling silver is .925 Ag, .075 Cu. A very hard (very high-melting) jeweler's silver "solder" is .75 Ag, .225 Cu, and .025 Zn. The common silver solders that jewelers use go by the names "easy", "medium", and "hard". To help clean the piece after soldering, it is quenched in "pickle", a moderately strong sulfuric acid bath, or a pretty concentrated solution of sodium bisulfate. A piece of firebrick makes a good work surface. Silver solder will not fill visible gaps. I use cut pieces of solder; these are approximately one-millimeter squares (or whatever shape results) cut with shears from sheet.
Polishing takes more work than the rest. Home workshop metalworking tools navigation links. There are a wide and varied range of tools that the home metalworking workshop owner can buy to complement his main machines tools.
A lot of these are a bit of a mystery to the newcomer - so I have collected together my articles relating to the different home metalworking workshop tools that you might come across. Collets in the home metalworking workshop Copper hammers, drifts etc Cutting fluid metalworking Dial indicators and dial test indicators metalworking Drill bits. Raise Copper Vessel 4- Beaker Part 1. Raise a Copper Vessel 4a - Raising the Bowl.
Raising a Copper Vessel, Start by Sinking. Raise Copper Vessel 4- Beaker Part 2. Raise Copper Vessel 4- Beaker Part 4 finish. Michael Burton Silversmithing.