Solder the rib on//anyone looking to do their first read this post.

[Old-Duckman]

Glad it worked out for you . I silver braze my ram rod pipes on first then soft solder the rib on the barrel.

I never did either on and BP rifle but have done lots of soft and hard soldering with many different grades of each on various metals...Your method makes more sense to me than vice versa.

 

[BJHabermehl]

One tool I have found to help clean up after soldering a rib onto a barrel is a sharp chisel and cold blue. After soldering clean up as best you can, I’ll wipe the joints with cold blue. Any solder you missed will be apparent as the solder won’t color with the cold blue solution. The sharp chisel is useful to pare away solder close to the joints that you can’t get to with sand paper etc. BJH

 

[Crow#21957]

TOW not yow