Cadmium Silver Solder

I thought i always used good ventilation.

Cadmium silver solder.

Silver contacts from electrical equipment clean silver contacts on bus bars buss bars busbars etc. Silver brazing produces strong sealed leak proof joints on. Afaik the silver solder i use is 2 ag and copper. In there a real risk using cadmium.

At 320 c and when heated above this temperature in air produces cadmium oxide fumes. Cadmium is a silver white ductile metal which melts. Nimrod77 wrote is it possible to tell which silver solder contains cadmium and which doesn t. At first i didn t realize what was going on.

You can send us the following silver cadmium scrap to be refined and recycled. 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. Zinc cadmium alloys are useful for soldering aluminium whilst cadmium zinc tin alloys are used for soldering magnesium.

I want prepare a low melting point solder. But cadmium is poisonous. No flux needed when soldering copper the stuff the plumbers use on water or gas. Need to use flux with stainless though.

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. He uses 3 g of cadmium powder silver and copper and mix all of them in his hand. Choose from our selection of silver solder including brazing alloys without cadmium solder for stainless steel and more. Health effects of cadmium in silver solders.

I prefer cadmium bearing silver solder. 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. Acute immediate effects initial symptoms from. However a few hours after soldering with it i ve felt achy and out of sorts.

Serious health effects on the lungs and kidneys are the principal concerns. Silver brazing uses filler metals and alloys such as silver copper zinc cadmium etc. In stock and ready to ship. What is the best composition for it.

However it has given me a couple of scares. Cadmium solder and flouride fluxes cadmium in solder and fluorides in fluxes can kill you. But it finally dawned on me that cadmium was the culprit. I am proof of that.