Hello All:
I ordered a KX1 and it was shipped Priority Mail on
7/23 and have not received it yet. Danged post
office! In doing my preliminary research and
preparation I have a question:
Soldering is important, I think we all agree. The
selection of the correct type and size is critical to
Marty,
First of all, I believe .031 solder is too large a diameter for use on
Elecraft products, especially the KX1. I use .015 with great success,
and I do not recommend a larger solder than .020 for the KX1.
The reason is that with the large diameter solder, there is not great
control
David:
You have to draw the line somewhere. I realize this.
My thesis was to draw it a little further north to
include solder, thats all. Strictly in the vein of
nice touch department.
Your soldering iron, lamp and hand tools are not part
of the kit. Solder is. That's where I'm coming
from.
Hi Marty,
At the time I built a Heathkit DX 20 in 1957, and when several friends built
Heathkits in that era up to 1960, I don't remember any of us getting solder
with our Heathkit.
I bought Ersin Multicore solder and used that for all my kit building, and
still prefer it after some 44 years
Man, Oh, Man Don you said it right. I was so ignorant when I got back into
soldering, that i was not aware of the different sizes of solder. I had and
still have it... the .031 solder.The last kit I had built was a Heath Kit HW12
in the 60s. So to practice some soldering I ordered one of the
My experience is different, which is just more evidence to support using
the solder you prefer.
I routinely build surface mount boards with lots of fine pitch parts
(like K3 prototype boards :-) using either 0.031 or 0.025 diameter
solder. I never use anything finer.
YMMV
73,
Lyle KK7P
Lyle Johnson wrote:
My experience is different, which is just more evidence to support using
the solder you prefer.
I routinely build surface mount boards with lots of fine pitch parts
(like K3 prototype boards :-) using either 0.031 or 0.025 diameter
solder. I never use anything finer.
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