[Elecraft] Re: Source of poor solder joints?

[Tom Hammond]

VERY GOOD POINT, Mark!

And yes, I do the very same. Just a 'touch' of added solder to 'wet' 
the cleaned tip AND to provide that needed means of transferring heat 
from one point to the next.

A 'dry' soldering iron tip WILL eventually transfer the heat, BUT a 
'wetted' tip will accomplish the heat transfer MANY TIMES FASTER and 
with less chance of 'frying' something in the process (component OR 
PC board trace).

Good catch pal.

Thanks,

73,

Tom   N0SS


At 02:13 PM 11/22/2006, Mark Baugh wrote:
>I agree with all Tom has stated, but to add a bit
>more(I didn't see mention of this), after cleaning the
>tip well I will dab just a touch of solder to the
>right before touching the joint to establish a
>"bridge."  This helps the transfer of heat quickly to
>the joint so that you're not applying heat too long to
>that high quality but fragile circuit board.  Too much
>heat for too long is a disaster to any pcb.  My $.02
>
>73,
>Mark Baugh
>W5EZY
>Grenada MS
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