Cadmium Silver Solder

In there a real risk using cadmium.

Cadmium silver solder. Health effects of cadmium in silver solders. Choose from our selection of silver solder including brazing alloys without cadmium solder for stainless steel and more. Cadmium is a silver white ductile metal which melts. At a dollar a joint it was an easy way to make a healthy chunk of money in three days at that point in time i had been metalsmithing for over 30.

Afaik the silver solder i use is 2 ag and copper. You can send us the following silver cadmium scrap to be refined and recycled. Silver brazing uses filler metals and alloys such as silver copper zinc cadmium etc. Nimrod77 wrote is it possible to tell which silver solder contains cadmium and which doesn t.

No flux needed when soldering copper the stuff the plumbers use on water or gas. But it finally dawned on me that cadmium was the culprit. Need to use flux with stainless though. Kappcad cadmium zinc solders are medium temperature alloys that provide strong corrosion resistant joints on most metals making them an excellent choice for soldering dissimilar metals these solders are often used in applications requiring higher temperatures and superior strength joints especially aluminum to aluminum and aluminum to copper joints in electronics lighting and.

In 2001 i took a job to silver solder three thousand parts made of stainless steel. Serious health effects on the lungs and kidneys are the principal concerns. Acute immediate effects initial symptoms from. Hi everybody the video silver paths the art of filigree shows an artist preparing silver solder with cadmium silver and copper.

Zinc cadmium alloys are useful for soldering aluminium whilst cadmium zinc tin alloys are used for soldering magnesium. But cadmium is poisonous. I am proof of that. Silver brazing produces strong sealed leak proof joints on.

I thought i always used good ventilation. Ii silver brazing alloys cadmium is an important component in quaternary alloys with silver copper and zinc in the lower temperature range of brazing alloys. Silver cadmium alloys wire sheet contacts oxide etc. He uses 3 g of cadmium powder silver and copper and mix all of them in his hand.

Silver contacts from electrical equipment clean silver contacts on bus bars buss bars busbars etc. I prefer cadmium bearing silver solder. At 320 c and when heated above this temperature in air produces cadmium oxide fumes. However a few hours after soldering with it i ve felt achy and out of sorts.

However it has given me a couple of scares. What is the best composition for it. Cadmium solder and flouride fluxes cadmium in solder and fluorides in fluxes can kill you. I want prepare a low melting point solder.