Art Jewelry - Making a bezel part 5
In part five of our five-part series on making a bezel, Art Jewelry magazine associate editor Addie Kidd shows you how to solder your bezel to a backplate.
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If you turn the gas off first and the oxygen off second, you can create a small backfire that results in a loud pop or bang. It’s the flame being sucked back into the torch head–it isn’t safe, and over the long run hurts your torch.
Use flashback arrestors on your hoses to keep any flame from traveling all the way back to your oxygen or gas tanks.
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what happens if you turn the oxygen of second?
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Secondly you should be using hard solder on the bezel edge and medium to fit the bezel to the plate. this makes sure you have no problems with further soldering of other pieces onto the finished bezel and plate.
While using fine silver is good for a bezel… using sterling silver will make the bezel easier to hold its shape. your video shows that the bezel is mishappen because of using fine silver.
These comments are not ment to be negative just informative..
You have done a good job
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firstly when preparing the bezel to fit onto the plate you need to flatten the edge that is to touch the plate
this is achieved by using a sheet of emery paper on the bench and rubbing the bezel edge on the emery paper. this gives you a flat edge to work with.
If you volatilise the water in the flux before adding the solder it heats up the piece and makes it easier to place the solder pallions in the right position.
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All in all for one small part of a project, this was a good video, they hade good camera and camera person, I would have done a few things different but hay if it works for cool, the task is to complete the goal not too get raped up by the obstacles. Good vid.
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