Dealmonger: Vigor Heat Shield
By Nick Carter
Heat shield compound is used when doing soldering (hard soldering, silver brazing) on a piece of jewelery or other assembly where you want to protect other completed joints from coming undone, or components such as stones when repairing a piece. Contenti has a 16 oz. jar of Vigor Heat Shield for $12.35 — that’s a lot of soldering.
I need to get some for myself as I had to resort to this…
when fixing a friend’s eyeglasses yesterday. Yes, I used potato as a heatsink. It worked fine, but I got a bit hungry.
Vigor Heat Shield [contenti.com]
August 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
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August 6th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Oh, look! Mr.Potatohead’s glasses!
August 6th, 2009 at 9:53 am
My only question is do you season the potato before or after the soldering?
August 6th, 2009 at 9:53 am
potatos work well, as does clay, so does liquid paper, as it contains clay. obviously these solutions depend a lot on the scale of the piece youre working on, but ive used liquid paper to protect solder joints on pieces where there were multiples that I was worried about reflowing.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Can anyone comment on how effective the welding form of this sort of putty is for use on thin sheet steel? I often see it for sale in auto restoration mags but nobody I ask has ever used it.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I’ve used a product called “A cool pair of hands” for sheetmetal fab. Works great and I love the name!
August 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I’m going to try the potato heat sink on a turquoise and sterling silver pendant I need to solder. I hope it works!
August 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Good luck and let us know how it goes!