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Lampert PUK Welder 2

Lampert PUK Welder 2 As I now have a laser welder I’m sadly selling my Lampert 2 PUK welder. It is ideal for small weld jobs like jewellery. There are no nasty chemicals and it welds all metals including silver perfectly which laser welders don’t like! Lampert are the biggest and best known brand of PUK welders. If you haven’t used a PUK welder before then it’s a great way to cold solder metal if a blow torch isn’t an option - perhaps pieces with gems already set. It’s essentially a desktop arc welder, you connect one electrode

GIA Demonstrates Prototype Mounted Gem Testing Device

The GIA have announced their intention to introduce for sale later this year an easy-to-operate, sophisticated desktop instrument to reliably identify natural diamonds, separating them from all simulants and from diamonds that may be synthetic or treated. The GIA mounted gem testing device combines advanced spectroscopic technology; GIA’s extensive research into the qualities of natural, treated and synthetic diamonds; and decades of diamond analysis experience to identify more than 97% of untreated natural mounted and un-mounted D-to-Z diamonds 0.9 mm or greater in diameter (approximately 0.005 carat). Diamonds that may be synthetic or treated and all simulants are referred