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Smoke73
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Clean up
      #198811 - 06/01/12 02:27 PM

Just finished soldering on my first set of ribs. Went pretty smooth and turned out well but probably ended up with more solder on the barrels than needed. Any tips on clean up to get a professional finish would be greatly appreciated.

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Smoke

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Huvius
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Re: Clean up [Re: Smoke73]
      #198826 - 07/01/12 01:01 AM

From the films I have seen, looks like the excess solder is chiseled away and the joints smoothed with stones. My guess is that you would need stones with acute angles to reach the joint between the barrel and rib being careful not to hit the square edges of the rib.
Never done it, mind you, just seen this. There was a newer video of the V.C. shop with a bit of this shown.

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Re: Clean up [Re: Huvius]
      #199330 - 13/01/12 09:58 AM

I use a couple of cheap small wood carving chisels that I got in a set from Harbor Freight. Both are straight chisels, one is 1/4" wide the other 3/16". I use these to get the large blobs and excess solder along the ribs and barrels. I use a small mallet to drive them, BUT, be careful, it is easy to hold them at too steep an angle start to cut into the steel! Then you have a lot more work removing/sanding out the divots (I have never done done this, but I have heard this can happen - yeah, right!).

Almost forgot to mention that I also have a 3/16" Allen wrench that I have ground the short leg into a small scraper. After using the chisels, I use this scraper. It really peals out the solder material without much worry about gouging the steel.

After that, I have a piece of 1/4 aluminum plate 1.5" x 4.5" (nothing magic about the dimensions, was a scrap piece I had laying about), that I cut a bevel on one long side and one short side. I use this as a sanding block for various grits of sandpaper to clean up the balance of the solder. The long bevels allow me to get in tight at the joint of the rib and the barrels. I don't use stones as the solder tends to load them up just like a grinding wheel and ruins them. The sandpaper works great.

Ellis

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Edited by DBLGN (13/01/12 10:26 AM)

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bouldersmith
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Re: Clean up [Re: DBLGN]
      #199371 - 14/01/12 12:20 AM

I use a sharpened piece of brass. It is harder than the solder and will not dig into the barrels

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Re: Clean up [Re: bouldersmith]
      #199374 - 14/01/12 12:54 AM

IMHO, after the excess is removed with SHARP small chisels, machinists' stones, in varying degrees of coarsness, is the way to go. Keep the area well flooded with varsol to greatly cut down on the loading of the stones which Ellis refers to. Shape the tips of the stones to the needed angles, either on a grinding wheel or on a large, coarse, sharpening stone. Wet-or-dry paper, folded over a backer, just can't get into the tight corners as well as a stone does, by virtue of the thickness of the paper.

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Re: Clean up [Re: Ron_Vella]
      #199376 - 14/01/12 01:45 AM

Getting close to finishing, Smoke? Won't be long now.

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Smoke73
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Re: Clean up [Re: DarylS]
      #199417 - 14/01/12 12:10 PM

Thanx for the advice fellas. Just updated my regulation thread. Some fine tuning to do on regulation and sights before I start final cleanup.

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