[AT] A long shot--Wisconsin part Brazing and cast iron

[Mike Reggie]

  Sorry Larry,
I often wonder about the origins of  some of these things, like was borax 
used as substitute for some existing flux, or was it a case that there was 
no flux, and sombody discovered that borax would be a good flux?  Kind of 
like a chicken/egg question I guess.

      Mike


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From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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Subject: RE: [AT] A long shot--Wisconsin part    Brazing and cast iron
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:28:48 -0500

"I've heard older guys talking about using ordinary borax as flux"

LOL!  I guess I know where that puts me.  :-)  "Back in the day" when I
was learning all this stuff, borax was the chemical equivalent of "the"
flux that was available -- but that was over 50 years ago.

Larry