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| I have been building a few through wire construction lures. I have been using 316L Stainless wire. I purchased silver braze flux which is made for stainless wire. The problem I have been having is that the solder is not adhering to the stainless. I have been using the correct flux paste. Does anyone have any advice?
Should I use a different type of stainless wire, or solder? 
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Location: Holly, MI | Are you getting the stainless hot enough to adhere?
The soldered ends are a nice touch and finger friendly. |
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Posts: 134
| Make sure that you are heating the wire enough to melt the solder, and not melting the solder with your heat source and buttering the joint that way. |
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| I have a solder gun that goes up to 800 degrees. I have thought about a small torch to heat the wire hotter. Maybe that is the problem... |
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Location: Rockland County, New York | Ditto what figuree said. Being a smoker I always have an asortment of micro torches on hand. The only time I use an iron is where space restricts the use of a torch. You can pick up the torches at most cigar/tobacco shops inexpensively. |
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| I wrap mine, it does not look as pretty but its 10X stronger. I have had solder baits come apart and now I own/make zero! |
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Location: In the slop! | In order for the solder to adhere, the metal has to be absolutely clean. Hit it with some fine sand-paper or emory-cloth, then a shot of brake-clean. Silver-solder can be tricky to work with, good luck. |
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| Thanks for the info. I will give the ideas a shot.  |
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| Try 60/40 Lead/Tin acid core solder. |
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Stainless steel through wire construction/Solder