re silver solder shiekh ictp trieste it andy shiekh writes i have seen the existance of electronics solder with a silver content that seems to have good wetting and fatique reatings can anyone tell me why it is not used silver is not such an expensive metal this is called silver bearing solder it is used to solder to devices that have silvered contacts one application is soldering to the ceramic terminal strips used in the old tektronix scopes these were notched ceramic strips that were silver plated in the notches if you used ordinary solder the molten metal would disolve the silver off of the ceramic the silver was quite thin the is a saturated solution of silver in tin and lead thus no more silver can be disolved in the solder solution other devices that use silver contacts are quartz crystals and ultrasonic transducers peter reilley pvr wiis wang com ka lat for info on beav binary editor and viewer finger pvr das wang com well that about says it
