RE: Soldering Station

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In Reply to: Soldering Station posted by jupiterboy on October 24, 2009 at 16:47:13:

All the iron suggestions are good, but your comment about silver solder I would pass on.

I used to be a big believer in silver solder. Its joint is not as solid as a eutectic solder, and while it sounds good when new, long term may not be the case.

some of the audiophile solders use a pretty corrosive flux, so when doing any rework, you need to be sure you remove it all afterwards.

A few years ago, we ran a solder comparison test. The best solder we found for sonics and long term use was Kester 63/37 with the 285 flux.

John

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