Water Soluable Solder???

[Bob Zimmer]

At 11:51 AM 5/1/96 PDT, you wrote:
>The water soluable solder is a bit harder to solder with. The solder
>does not flow as nice but it does work. The big problem with it is that it
is very corrosive. Your board must be washed with lots of water immediately.
We use it in manufacturing and wash our boards right away.
>In the lab we use "No clean" solder which has smaller amounts of the normal
flux so the board does not look bad afterwards.
>Ron

I was speaking with a friend last night who had some of the Kester brand I
mentioned in the first post.  He gave me about 3 feet to try.

First thing I noticed is that when soldering switches it takes quite a bit
of heat to melt and it is very hard to get a good brite connection.  Yet
when soldering resistors and caps, it seems as good as rosin core.

Thanks for the tip on washing it right away!

Bob

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