At 08:36 AM 7/27/2013, Larry Alofs wrote: >could be repaired by soldering a piece of copper wire across the break. By >carefully picking away at the cracked coating I located the bad spot, >scraped the ends of the exposed wire, and soldered a patch successfully. Larry, those resistance elements are not likely to be soft-solderable by ordinary means as they tend to have high concentrations of nickel and chromium. You'd likely have better luck with silver brazing. I suspect you have a contact joint but not a real bond. Yours, David |
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