----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Roberts" <kpiano@goldrush.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: June 05, 2003 2:12 PM Subject: Re: Stienway sustenuto bar > It is confusing in that silver soldering in the plumbing trades was a hard > stick like a brazing rod. Is that what you meant? You had to bring the > copper up to the point it was about ready to melt and the stuff would flow > in with its own flux. That seems like over kill to me. Just regular solder > done properly should work. I just put two of those rods on but I can't quite > picture how that is attached so maybe I'm steering you wrong. Good luck. > Keith Roberts The stuff we used was in wire form just like the lower temperature stuff. And it didn't have to get all that much hotter. Some, but not a lot. We didn't use it a lot. When we did it was to solder certain connections together that had to take a whole lot of unexpected vibration in certain airplanes under certain conditions and go on flying with at least some of their electronics still working. Del
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