After hearing so much about Prip’s Flux on this forum, I was
surprised to see it being offered on online, specifically the Santa
Fe Jeweler Supply’s Website. From all the conversations here it
seemed like it was a homemade recipe. My question is could this be
the same thing? Do I use it straight from the bottle without having
to boil it etc. etc. like the recipe?
Cheers!
It is packages and sold by Grobet under the Griffith brand name.
Most every jewelry distributor deals with Grobet so you should be
able to get it almost anywhere. We stock it at our store.
Tim
A2Z Metalsmith Supply Inc
5151 S Federal Blvd Unit I-9
Littleton CO 80123
720 283-7200
I really like to use the commercially made Prip’s Flux sold by
Grobet suppliers. It works great! (straight out of the bottle—you
don’t need to boil, or anything) Cindy Www.cynthiaeid.com
After hearing so much about Prip's Flux on this forum, I was surprised to see it being offered on online, specifically the Santa Fe Jeweler Supply's Website. From all the conversations here it seemed like it was a homemade recipe. My question is could this be the same thing? Do I use it straight from the bottle without having to boil it etc. etc. like the recipe?
All you’ve bought is the finished product, same as you could make
from the recipes we’ve discussed here, but saving you the trouble of
making it up. Use it as packaged.
It’s not surprising that someone would make it up and sell it,
given that it’s a useful and published formula, and not everyone
wants to go to the trouble of making it up themselves. I think,
though I’m not certain, that you can by the dry mix from griffiths
chemicals if you’ve had trouble finding the ingredients, or don’t
want to buy so much.
boiling, by the way, is just the quick way to get the dry
ingredients to go into solution. They’d do it in cold water too, if
you stir it long enough. Boiling doesn’t somehow change anything
about the chemicals. It just makes dissolving them easier.
Peter Rowe