On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:54:45AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Aug 23, 2004, at 2:04 AM, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: > >>I have been soldering a copper HDD water cooler this way - put an iron > >>plate over gas stove, heated the biggest part up, and then it was just > >>play with liquid solder and rosin (I bought a 1kg bag in a drugstore). > > > >Your drug stores sell rosin? Ours sells Doritos, but I don't think > >that > >counts. :) > > Umm, yeah. For some reason that gave me the mental image of trying > to use sun tan lotion as flux. ;)
I sometimes use citric acid (in solid crystalline form) as a flux and citric acid is being sold in drugstores too :) Cl<
