How To Make Soldering Flux At Home

It seals out air thus preventing further oxidation and by facilitating amalgamation improves wetting characteristics of the liquid solder.

How to make soldering flux at home. Got home and realized it doesnt mention rosin anywhere on the package and neither does the online listing. It only takes a very tiny droplet now that you simply touch to your solder lug or part and works great. Well get you started and dont miss the giveaway at the end of the video.

With the help of this filler material is made the connection of copper brass silver. In this video I use a 5050 combo of the two. After you have the flux-rosin tea simply take a syringe and draw the liquid flux into it staying away from the vasoline-like goo part.

Metal workers artists and crafters all rely on flux to complete many of their projects. It helps to clean dirty parts and improves the surface tension of the molten solder so it stays on the pads instead of running between them called bridging. It is necessary for metal surfaces to be prepared in order to adhere to any solder placed on them.

Had to run to the store and grab some solder for a project since I lost mine in a recent move. Mix together 60 ml 2 fl oz Borax 60 ml 2 fl oz TSP and 90 ml 3 fl oz of boric acid in a pan. So thats 32 oz.

You dont need to be precise. The citric acid mix vill make the solder wet fine where the isopropanol alone wont. DangPro shows you how to create your own solder flux.

To make a larger quantity double the ingredients -- but always maintain the 223 ratio. 10 to 15 pine cones with pine tar sap on the ends of the cone leaves found around pine trees 1 Quart Denatured Ethyl Alcohol found in the wild at a hardware store or you could distill your own Tools required. Ive looked at several manufacturer safety data sheets MSDS in an attempt to understand what the important components of solder flux.