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I require aid from the solder king!
Mikezilla:
Hey Haruman.
Just tried to solder something for the first time last night and it was a huge embarassing failure. I might have got the wrong solder. What kind of solder do you recommend for LED wiring? I watched some videos on youtube, do you have any tips or tricks or anything? The solder I got kind of just evaporated. As I mentioned in another thread, Im wiring up some LEDs to make the Infinity Gauntlet for a friend for Comic con. Any help would be appreciated.
HaRuMaN:
Lead based, rosin core. :cheers:
Don't use the lead free stuff.
Nephasth:
I'm not the solder king by any means :notworthy:, but I recently got some 63/37 .020" no clean solder for small solder points on circuit boards and am pretty pleased with it.
Mysterioii:
+1 on the lead based rosin core. I've got a rather old spool of it that I can't quite bring myself to toss and the rosin has lost it's kick with age so I keep a bottle of flux handy, but if your solder is relatively "young" then you wouldn't need to mess with it.
I've been told to use silver solder for surface mount work but that's for another discussion... ;D
knave:
When I was completely new to soldering, I didn't know to "tin" the parts I would be soldering. Talk about frustrating...I couldn't get anyting to stick.
Now I use a dab of flux and it's great. A decent iron helps too...
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