[Elecraft] Use of flux.. and another rant on soldering

Dale Boresz [email protected]
Fri Feb 13 10:58:00 2004


Tom,

What an excellent, practical treatise on soldering! I've been soldering 
for 40 years myself, and have experienced exactly the same things you 
described. If followed, your instructions and comments will certainly 
help to eliminate soldering as a problem source.

Nice job!

73,
Dale / wa8sra


Tom Hammond wrote:

> ...That having been said... IF, and ONLY IF, you find that you 
> absolutely MUST use an axillary fluxing method for some really pesky 
> soldering task, USE ROSIN FLUX ONLY, and in MINUTE quantities. Then, 
> once applied...