Robert A. Alexander wrote: > > Volks, I've been "soldering" stuff for the past 37 years. Probably the > best advice I received from my mentor was that mechanical connections = > crimping, twisting, hooking AND electrical connections = lots of > mechanical contact and/or soldering! One should not depend upon a > soldered connection for mechanical connection, although, in printed > circuit board construction, one has to. > > If one has experienced a "brittle" nature to their soldered connection, > one has experienced a "cold" solder joint. > > "Flux" is NEVER necessary in typical electrical wiring soldering!!! > Rosin is NOT "corrosive", in any way! I have some home-brew & radio > kits I built back in the 60's and later and I defy anyone to find any > evidence of any rosin-induced "corrosion" in any of these pieces of > equipment! In fact, me grandmother's '37 Philco AM-SW radio still works > fine and, virtually, everything in it is "soldered" together. > A radio presents a completely different environment to a motor vehicle. There is no vibration in a radio and little temperature variation. |
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