Question: I see photos of old stoves with solder all around the burner base or fill port. Is that factory work or is it done after by the owner?
Hey, Doug, I've never seen a solder job from the factory that was less then almost perfect. Most botched-up soldering was done by some fumble-fingered, no skills, over optimistic moron, like ME!!! 8-[ 8-[ Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
Doug, if you can see the solder and it's more than a pencil line wide it's as doc says a fumble fingered fool with foolish ideas of fettl'n fudgets. Some one like me when i've had too much Chevis and too little commone sense. Doc's think'n he is fuddlefingered is like say'n brain surgery is simple. Mind, it is if you are not to concerned about the survival of your patient. lance
His biggest problem is he couldn't spell milch if he was swimming in it. lance Ooh wait, i said that about myself? Yup sure did. Ooh well, it is true.
Before you solder get a broken unfixable stove font to practice on. I do a fair bit of electrical soldering and it comes up ok but first time I tried with a torch on a font the flux ran down the side followed closely by the solder Wiped most of it off and the joint wasnt globby but one side of that font is still tin coloured.
