[Jewelry making - Article 00494] - Re: [Orchid] Alternate granulation glues

[Tony]

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    I've very successfully used a flour and water paste made from rice or
    cereal flour. Even mustard will work. 

    I've done the best work using a compound of copper sulphate, rice
    flour and water! 

    All you need is a substance that is carbon based. 

    What actually happens is that the glue is reduced to a carbon deposit
    during heating. This combines with the oxygen in the copper oxide on
    the surface forming carbon dioxide, the copper then forms a eutectic
    alloy on the surface of the granule and the plate and this fuses the
    two together. 

    Tony Konrath 

Gold and Stone
www.goldandstone.com
tony AT goldandstone.com 

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