How to solder shiny metals?

Feb 05, 2008 3 Replies

Is it possible to solder the shiny metal (chrome-plated?) that small telescoping antennas are made out of? The kind used on cordless phones and portable transistor radios.



How would I do this? Silver solder?


My old cordless phone works fine, and I was going to give it to a friend of a friend. Then I went to lift up the antenna on the base station and it snapped, half-way through. I didn't think I was applying nearly enough force, but it is a long but pretty thin one.



I'm supposed to give this to him soon, so I don't have time


Those antennas are made of chrome-plated brass, which regular solder fixes well.

You may want to ask in rec.crafts.metalworking , where there's a lot of expertise.

you will also find that it works just fine without it.

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some of these are metal coated plastic. it's hard to tell what you have from here. please hold it higher and more to the left.

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