[Elecraft] solder, where do i find.....

[Francis Belliveau]

On: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:27 PM
"Gary L Surrency" <gsurrency@juno.com>
wrote:
> We no longer recommend "no clean" solder. My personal preference is
> Multicore 63/37 alloy, Digikey pn. SN6321-ND. This solder is the best
> I've ever used, and has 5 cores of RA type, activated flux.
>
> The no clean stuff is just too hard to solder with for many people, as it
> has very little flux. It's probably OK for rework and experts.
>
> If you feel you just have to have the no clean solder, it is Digikey pn.
> SN63C21-ND. But I don't want to see it on my bench! ;-)
>
>
When I got my K2 kit the solder I had was very old so I decided to purchase
what was recommended.  It was a hard search but I found that Future
Electronics (978/779-3000) carries it.  They are normally a mail order house
but since they were along my route home from work I cut a deal to pick it
up.  The only catch was that their minimum order required that I buy 2
pounds.  I had no problem finding another HAM to buy the extra roll.

I had no trouble using it except for cleaning toroid leads.  I too prefer to
scrape them first.

Fran, KA4FRH
K2 s/n 314