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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Qu about old reflow solder paste

From: Trevor Matthews <trev.matthews@...>
Date: 2006-05-29

Stock number 184-9985
(It is quite old best before wk 50, 2003 it's remained in the fridge
apart from a few mins each use. It is a multicore solder, "No clean RMA
dispensing solder cream"

Trev

Leon Heller wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Trevor Matthews" <trev.matthews@...>
>To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Qu about old reflow solder paste
>
>
>Leon,
>
> I'm not sure that we're talking about the same company.
>
> I got this (what I thought was) electronics solder paste from
>www.rsaustralia.com.au. I thought they (RS components) were different
>from Radio Shack. I understood that radio shack in the US was tandy
>here is aus.
>
> RS Components certainly advertised this as SMD solder paste.
>
>
>That ∗should∗ be OK, I buy a lot of stuff from RS Components here in the UK.
>What is the actual RS part number? Perhaps your problems are due to it being
>old stock.
>
>Everyone seems to have assumed it was Radio Shack/Tandy.
>
>Leon
>
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