How To Make Homemade Soldering Paste

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How to make homemade soldering paste. When soldering small radio components or thin copper wire a slightly different composition can be used. So 30 mins gives enough paste to do a whole board saving me at least 2. Judging by the emails I get this is mainly because of two reasons.

A lot of times those new to soldering think that the application of flux is not a necessary component of the soldering process. After looking at several forums I found a forum conversation in which someone used shavings from a filed block of solder mixed with solder flux to create paste and reported it as success. Add your solvent start with a small amount and keep adding until you are happy with the way your flux behaves.

How to make flux for soldering yourself. Make your own liquid Solder Flux Reply 14 on. Of borax for every tsp.

Well get you started and dont miss the giveaway at the end of the video. Then you have to mix that 4 teaspoons full of tooth paste in 1 teaspoons full of Vaseline it should petroleum jelly not some other product of Vaseline brand. A laser printer would not work as it will melt the plastic.

The use of flux when soldering electronics is one of the fundamental skills that everyone who thinks of picking up a hot soldering iron should have. This question we will explore in this video. Paste on it with a brush.

Bear in mind though most common solder wire is rosin-core it has one or more cores of flux inside of it. Video Player is loading. Tymm posted a cool instructable showing how to roll your own solder paste stencils.