How To Diy Soldering Flux
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How to diy soldering flux. DangPro shows you how to create your own solder flux. The water is used to help dissolve the chemicals so your flux mixture will just be more or less concentrated depending on how much water you use. Dont overheat and stop as soon as the solder starts to appear as a ring around the coupling otherwise itll all run out of the joint.
3 points 8 years ago. It is used when metal is melted and soldered. Coat the wires with the soldering flux.
Add approximately 250 ml 1 cup of water to the ingredients in the pan. Heres my experimental formulation for a no-clean-style flux with PEG resin and amino acid activator. An easy way to dispense the flux is from a 10 ml needle-tip bottle.
Place the pan on the hob and warm the ingredients to boiling point. Add some isopropyl or denatured alcohol to a small jar or plastic medicine bottle. I would have added a few drops of glycerol if there had been any nearby but the flux was fine as it was.
Pinecone flux can be made with 10-15 pinecones and some denatured ethyl alcohol. You can make a citric acid-based flux from ordinary household supplies that will prepare an object for soldering. In previous videos we compared different types of commercial flux.
Flux is a substance that comes in powder paste and liquid forms. Flux is a wonderful goo that makes soldering faster and easier. Push the soldering gun onto a side of your wires to melt flux.