solder copper onto chrome pliers

goodfella · 2007-05-22T21:07:26+00:00

I want to make a balsa punch similar to a paper punch. I want to take a 1/4th inch copper plug fitting and solder onto a chrome (or steel) pair of pliers. How can I solder these two items together. I have the solder and flux for soldering aluminum thinking this would work, but it doesn't. Do I need to find a pair of steel (do they make them) pliers to do this with? What are your suggestions?

May 22, 2007 25 Replies

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DoN. Nichols 19 years ago

According to Leon Fisk :

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You could do what I've done. First my original ISP dropped my newsfeed to my private server, then a week later they dropped news entirely, so I dropped them. I then got a different ISP, and their news was rather flakey at best, so I wound up settling with newsguy. A small monthly fee gets me excellent news service.

The ISP's server finally came back to life (after not working properly for about a year), though it still does not carry some newsgroups which I like to follow, so I won't bother using it again.

And Newsguy acts *quickly* on problem reports, and even posts on its own private news heirarchy about projected outages for service. They even on their own hook did not charge when things were going to be out for a major changeover from one set of server hardware to another. Nobody had to ask for this, they said that they were not going to charge

*before* the work started.

They also let you select a charity to which a percentage of your monthly fees go.

Enjoy, DoN.

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Leon Fisk 19 years ago

Hi Don,

Yes, I remember your not so long ago debacle with this change. I've heard good things concerning Newsguy from other sources too so I'll definitely keep this in mind. I was curious as to how this had been working for you (after the initial set-up and Newsguy problem solving) and now I know.

So far my provider has been good, but they are a smaller one compared to AOL or Earthlink conglomerations. I figure that someday they will probably get a buy-out offer that they can not refuse...

I really enjoy the newsgroups and it would be hard to justify paying for ISP service without them. Google groups is way toooooo annoying to use for anything but archive research.

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Steve Ackman 19 years ago

Supernews is no small potato...

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Gerald Miller 19 years ago

A couple years ago, Rogers dropped their news server. My IT dept. (Junior) got me a 10% reduction in price and signed me up with Giganews for about half that. So far I have been happy with the service. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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DoN. Nichols 19 years ago

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Yes. I don't follow the various binaries newsgroups, so I don't use all of the bandwidth that I pay for -- and they now let it accumulate so I now have enough bandwidth saved up to go on a major binaries binge if I ever decide that I need to do so. :-)

That is what happened to me. I was signed up with Digex for years, which got bought by Allegiance (and things were fine so far), but then that was bought by XO, and that is where the dropping of the newsgroups came in. XO dropped their own newsgroups at the same time.

I've only looked at it once with the thoughts of posting, and decided that it wasn't worth the trouble. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

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Leon Fisk 19 years ago

My provider

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made some changes years ago and I think they dropped providing news themselves and contracted it to Supernews. This is all just speculation on my part though. I only remember for sure that it was a bumpy ride for a few weeks.

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