Soldering Process for Sculpture

1. Soldering Wire Process
Manami Ishimura

2. Tools

3. Safety
• Wear eye protection.
*Solder can “spit”.
• Run a fan!!!
*When you solder galvanized
metal few zinc goes into the air
as fume

4. 1. Sand the surface of galvanized wire
Rust and galvanized wires are hard to
Solder. So sand the rust orgalvanized
Surface off with sand papar.

5. 2. Fix wires using a helping hand

6. 3. Apply a flux using an acid brush
Flux is acid so do not use a regular brush.
Apply flux on the jointing part

7. 4. Heat round the jointing part
DO NOT Heat the jointing part!!!!
You heat only around the jointing part.
Otherwise, the wire does not get the certain temp to
merge flux and soldering core but only the core melt.
Once the flux starts bobbling, apply soldering core;
The core melts immediately.
DO NOT WAIT until flux gets burned
(will be brown color)

8. Demo