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mixes for fluxing nickel


leroyk

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Hi gang: I am still having problems with nickel in my damascus billets. I fi mix some boric acid crystals with borax, would that help or make it worse? If mixing in the boric acid helps. what would be the right ratio?
thanks for any adive you guys want to share Lee

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A lot of thing influence that process. When I weld nickel into a billet I use plain twenty mule team borax. Your best bet is to learn to weld in a can. There has been a lot written on that and the search engine on here or google knows the locations. After the initial weld goes well you can draw the billet out and cut restack. If in this process you get two layers or parts of two layers together you will have trouble. I cannot forge weld nickel to itself. Have fun

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