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btroj

You are correct, the quotes were made by cbrick (Rick) with the one exception of the one made by geargnasher. I have changed the post to address him and gearnasher. You ask the question...

Expanman

No need for a beheading at all. The sawdust you use is a good flux. I doubt any of us disagree with that. As I stated back in post #11;
“banger

I disagree with wax being referred...

btroj

BTW; Dr. Fryxell is also Mr. Fryxell. I was not discussing his education but what he said. Either is correct etiquette. Addressing me with no at all isn't quite proper etiquette is it. ...

JonB_in_Glencoe

The question I'm about to ask, has been asked before, But I think it bares mentioning again.

I'm gonna ask this question in a number of different manners, so as to best get my...

Cbrick

Mr. Fryxell is incorrect only in referring to wax as a “reductant”which it is not. Either you have lookedup the definition of a “reducer” in the dictionary as I mentioned or you haven’t. ...

Several do indeed manage that.

I, like probably most everyone here who read what 3 of you are saying have to wonder why you keep using Fryxell as your "source"? Especially when he disagrees with...

Ok, you experts continue using what you want to flux or reduce your alloys all you want. I couldn't care less. I like many others will continue to use wax to flux my alloys with. I'm sure the rest...

"I suspect that all we have is flux (that being an organic compound that helps the different metals marry eachother) and that reducer is a myth......Other than observing and proving the content of...

Wouldn't expect it any other way.........:lovebooli

Larry Gibson

Ok Rick, you win. Call it what you want.....now where is that Los Alomos engineer consultant application.....can I use you for a reference?


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Larry Gibson

Bottom line; waxes are fluxes just a Fryxell says.

Larry Gibson

Here's the problem; Fryxell took literary license and put in print a word out of it's defined context. "Reductant" is a reducing agent. A reducing agent is "a substance that reduces a chemical...

Perhaps this whole thread and discussion has become "reductio ad absurdum"..........

Larry Gibson

cbrick

I am not defining what a flux is or what it does. That has already been defined for many, many years. Look up the definition which also explains what they do of a flux and a reducer.
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cbrick

Please do tell us what the "metals industry" definition of a flux is (not what they use because it is the definition under discussion now) for lead, antimony and tin binary and ternary...

Ah, I see, we disagree, we don't like what was before so we rewrite..........makes perfect sense.........I shall continue to flux with some waxes as they flux perfectly..........but then so does some...

banger

I disagree with wax being referred to as a "reducer". With reference to metals a "reducer" is used to "separate, as pure metal, from a metallic ore." In the case of our use the flux is...

The actual definition of "flux" as used by us in "smelting" and fluxing during casting. The actual definition should not be confused with "notions" of what "flux" is as we use it or as compared to...