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I have uploaded a picture of a model 214 Accutron that came to me in pieces. The case had both lugs on one side, bent, and one lug was cracked, but still attached. The case is a good quality gold filled material, and the plating was in good shape. Obviously, someone before me tried to straighten one bent lug, and quit when the lug cracked. I took the case to a goldsmith friend and asked him to gold solder the cracked lug. He declined, telling me he doesn’t work on gold filled stuff. So I brought it home, got out my acetylene torch, borax, denatured alcohol, charcoal block, and gold solder. Without trying to straighten the cracked lug, I gold soldered it. The process involves carefully heating the whole case ring to the melting temperature of the solder. It soldered beautifully. I cleaned up the case. Now, since the case became annealed in the soldering process, I straightened both the soldered lug, and the other bent one, and neither cracked. You virtually cannot tell the case had been repaired.
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