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You need liquid solder flux.

Posted by Al Sekela (A) on January 2, 2009 at 11:04:07

In Reply to: This is the stuff posted by Dawnrazor on December 26, 2008 at 23:36:20:

Sorry I did not see your post earlier. I've used this material to make nice solder joints with a regular soldering iron.

The joint needs to be scrupulously clean, and you need to apply liquid solder flux, such as GC Electronics 10-4202. Your iron should have a fresh tip that has never seen leaded solder.

For a really pretty result, quench the solder with ethanol (Ever Clear) from an eye-dropper.

Remove the toasted residue of the solder flux with gentle scraping followed by clean solder flux remover solvent. Goof-Off also works.

Note that any solder joint will be better if you approach it the same way.

A cold solder joint will have intermittent conduction, and you can't predict when it will fail.

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