radio shack and others have acid free soldering flux I find a toothpick tip holds enough to solder a component touch the flow point and leave a bit of flux cleans up well with a bit of alcohol ect
Bob K3DJC On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 19:03:19 -0500 "Bob Novas" <[email protected]> writes: > I successfully reflow soldered the surface mount 6.8 ohm resistor > across R82 > in my K3S today. It took me a while to get my courage up, but it > worked out > well. > > > > In the kind of reflow soldering I used, you melt some solder and > flux on the > tip of a temperature controlled iron, and then, while holding the > SMD part > to be soldered to the board in its final location, touch the iron > tip to the > surface mount part one one side and then the other until it heats up > and > solder flows (the "reflow"). It's hard to hold everything perfectly > still, > but you can take a couple cracks at it until you get it right. > > > > Bob - W3DK > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
