Platinum Traditional Solders 1000C to 1700C

Traditional Platinum Solders have been made for generations and were formulated in response to a shortage of platinum on the market during World War II. Palladium was used as the primary metal instead of Platinum as Palladium at the time was cheaper and available. Traditional Platinum solders contain little to no Platinum, using Palladium, Gold, Silver and sometimes Nickel instead. Jewelers have gotten use to using them as they flow nicely, are relatively easy to use and somewhat match Platinum for color.  Things have changed over the years and now Palladium is much more expensive than Platinum so there is no real price advantage to these formulas and true Platinum plumb solders are now available (see below), although they start flowing at 1400 Centigrade. Because these solders contain so much Palladium, they are easy to use with Palladium.


Choose from 8 flow points:

• 80B-1000  1000 Centigrade 3% Pt & Au & Ag
• 80B-1100  1100 Centigrade 11% Pd & Au & Ag (No Pt)
• 80B-1200  1200 Centigrade 12% Pd & 2% Pt & Au & Ag
• 80B-1300  1300 Centigrade 20% Pd & Au & AG (No Pt)
• 80B-1400  1400 Centigrade 29% Pd & 4% Pt & Au
• 80B-1500  1500 Centigrade 38% Pd & 3% Pt & Au
• 80B-1600  1600 Centigrade 89% Pd & 10% Pt & Ag
• 80B-1700  1700 Centigrade 52% Pd & 16% Pt & Au & Ag

Sold in sheets weighing approximately 1 DWT