Electronics Forum | Thu Dec 15 08:04:47 EST 2005 | davef
Snaggie Oxidized nickel is very tough to solder. Using the typical fluxes that are in everyone's fireproof storage cabinet [that they've been sampled by very nice saletypes] is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. Recognize that the flux you want
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 20 18:15:02 EDT 2002 | davef
Haaaaa!!!! Soldering to plastic!!!! An apt analogy!!! I like to compare it to soldering to dirt. Some thing. In fact, you are soldering on nickel, when soldering on many things. It�s just that the gold, er Pd, flash enables the wetting mechanism