Thanks for the information John. Any idea what the composition of the Tix solder is? 50/50, 60/40? Brownells did not state it although I was surprised how low the melt temp is compared to others.
I will be wiring and wedging it up good with some heat sinking on the bottom rib and lugs in particular, but with propane heat and solder that low temp I should have no troubles as long as I take the time to prep and tin properly.
It was interesting what was under the top rib. Luckily very little coorosion since I only had a couple loose spots, and towards the breech there was a lot of resious stuff which I assume was old flux, but the forward 2/3 there was a white clay type material packed tightly in a nice "V" in the gap, completely filling it. It was very clean and very white like chalk or real fine clay dried out. You could crumble it between your fingers and it resulted in a fine white powder that felt clay like.
I saw this mentioned a while back by someone else on another thread and it was speculated that it was just flux. I saw flux, but this other stuff seemed more like a filler or heat sink material of some type. Has anyone else seen this or have any thoughts?
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