Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 02 08:52:46 EST 2020 | rlising
is there a particular solder bar that I need look into? this is new to me so I have no idea where to start looking.
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 14:53:08 EST 2020 | rlising
Hi, I purchase a leadfree aven solder pot 300w. We are wanting to pre tin power and ground wires prior to soldering onto pcb. I have some anti-erosion flux cored wire solder from koki S03x7Ca-70m 1.6mm. Can this solder be used? If not what is t
Electronics Forum | Fri Feb 28 17:41:49 EST 2020 | slthomas
I have never added anything but bar solder to a solder pot so I have no experience with adding flux cored wire, but I have to imagine that it would smoke like crazy and gum up the sides of your crucible before you ever touched a wire to it. We use
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 02 11:15:23 EST 2020 | slthomas
You'll want to chop your solder into "bite sized" pieces for your pot, by the way. A bolt cutter or a band saw are a couple of ways to do it without ruining other precision tools. It's up to you for the alloy you use, but there are several (some
Electronics Forum | Mon Mar 02 13:06:36 EST 2020 | charliedci
If you add any "flux cored" wire solder to the pot make sure you have ventilation as the flux will burn off and smoke like crazy. This solder pot is like any used in a wave or selective solder, no flux. The flux is added to wire prior to di
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 11 19:22:02 EDT 2020 | victorzubashev
Hi, 1. do not use flux-cored wire- the smell is bad and flux will evaporate anyway at the time of solder wire melting. 2. as suggested use solder bars, something like this: https://smtnet.com/company/index.cfm?fuseaction=view_company&company_id=39635
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 08:08:10 EST 2014 | charliedci
Should stranded copper wire (20 gauge 19 strand) be tinned prior to insertion into screw connector? One of our customers "suggests" tinned, but past experience tells us no.
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 23 23:00:42 EST 2014 | davef
I agree with AFlex. Don't tin stranded wire that's assembled into a screw terminal block. I believe the reasoning has to do with avoiding stress on the wire metal caused by different expansion rates of the solder and the wire. BR davef
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 04 21:50:47 EDT 2003 | davef
We like to use "enameled wire" that can be stripped by hot solder. Formvar [105�C] will not do that. Formvar was designed to with stand the hot oil seen in transformers. So, it requires either chemical or mechanical stripping. Most polyurethanes
Electronics Forum | Sat Apr 14 09:28:58 EDT 2007 | davef
When soldering a component to a board, the solderability protection on the component combines with the solderability protection on the board and the solder to form an alloy. This alloy is unique for that combination of solder and solderability protec
