On 23/04/2014 21:03, Andrew Mawson wrote: ...
That, to me, is the difference between brazing and hard soldering or silver soldering. The latter don't contain brass and have a white colour, which makes them more cosmetically suitable for some jobs.
I think mine must have been helping my father to make the wire mesh fronts to budgie breeding cages, using wire he had 'found' at work. That was with a 4oz copper bit soldering iron heated on the gas stove and probably around the same age.
Colin Bignell