does solder stick to silver??

[cookedcomp]

i want to creat a beehive with a silver dollar bottom, but i'm not sure weather silver sticks to pipe solder! Does it? i just don't want to wast a perfectly good silver dollar.

[eobard]

I've been told once or twice that you need special solder designed for silver surfaces. I haven't tested that theory but one of the people who told me was usually a reliable source.

[cookedcomp]

one more thing.... is my dollar silver? It's a canadian dollar from 1986 and it has a picture of 2 natives rowing a canue in front of an island, with the northern light in the backgroung

[cookedcomp]

Originally posted by eobard
I've been told once or twice that you need special solder designed for silver surfaces. I haven't tested that theory but one of the people who told me was usually a reliable source.

but i'm soldering the coin to copper!

[eobard]

Originally posted by cookedcomp
one more thing.... is my dollar silver? It's a canadian dollar from 1986 and it has a picture of 2 natives rowing a canue in front of an island, with the northern light in the backgroung

Nope, it isn't. Any modern / semi-modern silver dollar, the ones with the guys in the canoe, aren't silver. I think the last time the Canadian mint made silver dollars out of silver was 1963 or 1964, I'm not too sure on that but I know a 1986 coin isn't silver, its nickle and something else.

Also your info says you're in Canada. If you deface that coin then technically your comitting a federal offence. See if you can get an american coin, someone else put up a link to a place where you could order coins mad of 99.???% silver about two weeks ago. I looked at the site and the price was pretty cheap. Not sure who or what thread it was, check the last month worth of posts by title and you may get lucky.

[*spazzed*]

Originally posted by eobard


Also your info says you're in Canada. If you deface that coin then technically your comitting a federal offence. See if you can get an american coin, someone else put up a link to a place where you could order coins mad of 99.???% silver about two weeks ago. I looked at the site and the price was pretty cheap. Not sure who or what thread it was, check the last month worth of posts by title and you may get lucky.
Defacing coins in the states is a federal offence too. i know that solder sticks to copper and silver, but stay away from aluminum. Also, try to see if you can find jewlers solder, it's mostly silver, but takes higher heat to start it's liquifying.

[cookedcomp]

Originally posted by eobard


Nope, it isn't. Any modern / semi-modern silver dollar, the ones with the guys in the canoe, aren't silver. I think the last time the Canadian mint made silver dollars out of silver was 1963 or 1964, I'm not too sure on that but I know a 1986 coin isn't silver, its nickle and something else.

Also your info says you're in Canada. If you deface that coin then technically your comitting a federal offence. See if you can get an american coin, someone else put up a link to a place where you could order coins mad of 99.???% silver about two weeks ago. I looked at the site and the price was pretty cheap. Not sure who or what thread it was, check the last month worth of posts by title and you may get lucky.

I'm not sure wether your right on that one or not because i put the coin to my forhead (making sure the coin was warm from my hands) and then placed a small heatsink to the coin and i felt the coin cool dramaticly very fast! The coin took on the exact temp of the heatsink in like seconds!!:cool:

[eobard]

Originally posted by cookedcomp


I'm not sure wether your right on that one or not because i put the coin to my forhead (making sure the coin was warm from my hands) and then placed a small heatsink to the coin and i felt the coin cool dramaticly very fast! The coin took on the exact temp of the heatsink in like seconds!!:cool:

I am sure wether I'm right on that one. It's made of nickel. I've 2 "guys in the canoe" coins myself. I had a whole collection when I was a kid. None of mine were silver but two of my sister's coins were and they looked nothing like the canoe ones, they weren't even the same size. The only similarity was the picture of the queen one one side. The mint may make silver coins now, they may have made them in '86, but they would not be the general issue silver dollars.

If you want a silver coin, get one from another country. Defacing currency is a crime in most countires but that law doesn't apply to people who live outside that country and are not citizens of that country. I could burn an american $100 bill in my house and only be guilty of being stupid.

[eobard]

This is a picture of a 1964 silver dollar made from silver, below it is a 1986 commerative silver dollar. If you have this 86 coin it might be silver but not the two guys in the canoe coin, that is nickel.

[Szech]

Here at work we use Silver sauder for applications that require high conductivity (thermal or electical). In the solder box is a can of flux. The flux is spread over the area that the solder needs to be applied to.

[*spazzed*]

Originally posted by Would71
Why not just try to find someone to sell ya a small-ish piece of silver that you could shape to your own needs? I think jewellers would be a good starting place to look for such things.
That's a great idea......that way you can stay out of trouble, seeing as you can get into trouble from doing almost nothing, but that's going off topic, heh heh