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Re: Refilling Mk IXA Bubble Sextant - Lessons Learnt
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Mar 6, 13:05 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Mar 6, 13:05 -0500
Herb-Checking on the web I see that's usually true. I've been using Solder-It, a paste solder, for some special needs and their silver compound apparently has something else in it to make it flow at low temperatures, because it can even be used with a match. Something else they cleverly don't name. Obviously there is a lost art to soldering these tubes, someone managed to do it routinely when they were still in service.