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Old 11-07-2007, 08:49 AM
benz benz is offline
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Default Silver solder for SS wire?

A friend once made some lengths of SS cable with aircraft eyes, but instead of swaging the cable into the eyes he soldered them with silver. Has anyone looked into doing this for sailboat rigging? It seems the solder would keep water out of the joint, and not having to squash the fitting and the cable during swaging might retain more strength.
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Ben
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