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[GRAF]

Ruby fluid does work, I think that is zinc chloride for the most part.
http://www.acrosales.com/    sells a tinning paste pure tin and flux 
combo. Mikes mention of the tinning powder reminded me of it.
They are good folks to work with.

Mike Graf


Mike Spencer wrote:
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> Otherwise, clean as well as possible, apply heat, bar tin or other
> pure tin product and ammonium chloride, swab with cotton or leather as
> Mike Graf says. (I don't know about using zinc chloride.) One slight
> variation I've used is to swab with steel wool.  But then you have to
> make a final, sometimes infuriatingly tedious effort to get any adhering
> strands of steel wool out/off of the tin before it hardens.
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>
> FWIW,
> - Mike
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