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George S. said:
Gene, what soldering equipment do you have? Is it calibrated? Fresh solder? A little rosin paste flux for the copper bus bar?
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yes sir, this is the pic of the soldering station....on this small stuff...i run it about 625....
fresh solder...??? i really dont know the age of the solder...been around quite a while....used it also to solder the wiring in my home...i did not use wire nuts...i soldered every joint...always wanted to do that....
yes sir i do have flux...normally dont use it...unless working on older or tarnished stuff...you kinda can tell when its best to put some on there....
 

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gene french said:
yes sir, this is the pic of the soldering station....on this small stuff...i run it about 625....
fresh solder...??? i really dont know the age of the solder...been around quite a while....used it also to solder the wiring in my home...i did not use wire nuts...i soldered every joint...always wanted to do that....
yes sir i do have flux...normally dont use it...unless working on older or tarnished stuff...you kinda can tell when its best to put some on there....
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and i do have a bigger non calibrated weller iron and a weller soldering gun for the heavy stuff....100/140 watts....sorry to say my calibrated station is not a weller...but, it does work...has some helping hands, solder holder and sponge setting....
 
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just curious....
as a person gets older, around my age...they start reflecting on certain aspects of their life....things done...things not done....
how have they impacted their surroundings....have you left the world a better place....
and i have often wondered what will be done/said after i am gone....
if any of you could be a fly on the wall at your own funeral....what is the one thing you would love to hear someone say???
 
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get you some FRESH solder and NO-Clean flux. If you use the Rosin flux, it will take you a week to get everything clean. The rosin makes a nicer joint but it's a bitch to clean when you have to build 2 back plane boards and the control board and then 5000 wires... 63/37 rosin core solder in about the .063 diameter. Save the solder gun for the house wiring.
 
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Don't forget, inspection of your solder joints under magnification and clean clean clean................

Solder balls, splashes, cold joints etc will ruin your day (or month if you live in a third world country with slow parts delivery).
 
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WOPL Sniffer said:
get you some FRESH solder and NO-Clean flux. If you use the Rosin flux, it will take you a week to get everything clean. The rosin makes a nicer joint but it's a bitch to clean when you have to build 2 back plane boards and the control board and then 5000 wires... 63/37 rosin core solder in about the .063 diameter. Save the solder gun for the house wiring.
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