Hello everyone!
After I solder pieces of stainless steel for jewelry together. Should I and does it help to pickle. I would use brand new pickle solution. Also what type of tongs should I use stainless or copper. I don’t want my stainless steel piece to take on a copper coating
Thanks for everyone’s help and suggestions.
Lary1047
I’ve soldered stainless to gold and on other occasions to shakudo and put the jobs into pickle without any copper flash plating. I might’ve been using a different stainless steel alloy - they’re not all ‘stainless’, some will resist rusting until it’s been heated, others are made to be ‘stainless’ in sea water.
I have an excellent pair of stainless steel tongs I use for reaching into hot pickle with no copper goings on. Anyway I understood it was iron that does the copper plating on stg etc. F’rinstance binding wire… I must remove that before pickling.