soft-solder

The pieces at each end of the sole are of cast-brass, instead of sheet-copper, with soft-solder joints, which are very apt to give way.

Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

Page 156 on the desirability of the fruit of the tree of knowledge that it is no wonder that some are at a loss to tell the real apple from the soft-solder affair tinted over with the russet hues of insincere representations.

Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker Thomas S. Gaines 1889