Im getting there but would like an opinion

[Crow#21957]

I have soldered the rib under my Vincent rifle. Did not do the pipes.The silver bearing solder I used melts at around 430F or so.I plan on using a very small butane torch to do the pipes. The solder I have melts at 230F. So wi th the difference in melt temps and small torch and wrapping the barrel on each side of the pipe with cold wet rag hopefully I cand get the pipes solder without affecting the rib.What do you think?

 

[Norman Brooks]

I usually solder both at the same time. It should work the way you are doing it with wrapping the barrel with cold wet rags.
I have built one that I used pipes that have the mounting tab and very carefully hogged out the rib and double pinned them. Top picture with pinned, bottom picture with solder.

 

[tgfrench]

The 230 will be a weaker material. Don't know if it will present any real life problem. Personally, I would just use the silver solder.

 

[dave_person]

Hi,
You want strong solder for the pipes. You also want to make sure they are actually mortised into the rib not just laying on the surface. I would probably put C clamps holding the rib to the barrel and then solder on the pipes with the same higher temp solder you used for the rib. If you melt some of the solder holding the rib, it won't matter because of the clamps and it will congeal when it cools.

dave

 

[boman]

I use the same solder for both and mortise them as Dave points out. the low temp solder is not strong enough and if you use the rifle much I can about gurantee a pipe or pipes will get knocked off at some point. been there done that on the first gun I built.

Steve