I was lucky enough to dodge this job...
Co-worker a few tables over got it.
Random customer came in with a little tea pot like thing, kinda old and fancy, seemed to be made out of silver.
The handle had fallen off, so the co-worker went to
silver braze it back on.... had the oxy-act out and was heating it up oh so gently...
I happened to be walking past his table while he was heating it... the second I turned past the curtains I heard *TINK tink tink...*. I stopped, thought "That didnt sound right..." and walked back around the weld screen.
The whole thing fell apart. All of the
soldered on pieces fell off.
He was sitting at his bench, silver braze rod in his hand, torch still lit shaking his head and looking like someone kicked his puppy. The 30 min quickie turned into a 2 day jigsaw of how the hell does it go back together...