Rolling your own soldering tip

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How can a "coat" of silver solder work? it will admix/dilute with the next loading of SnPb solder let alone Pb-Free

-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on

The term "silver solder" has two meanings: Traditionally, and what Bob means, it is a high temperature (450 deg C) alloy used with a blowtorch for brazing. But it has recently been introduced for a low- temperature lead solder replacement, causing frequent confusion.

Chris (whose first soldering iron was a Remploy. It may still be around somewhere.)

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The term "silver solder" has two meanings: Traditionally, and what Bob means, it is a high temperature (450 deg C) alloy used with a blowtorch for brazing. But it has recently been introduced for a low- temperature lead solder replacement, causing frequent confusion.

Chris (whose first soldering iron was a Remploy. It may still be around somewhere.)

But 450 deg C is not that much higher than electronics soldering iron temperatures of 370 to 420 deg C, I take it that is enough margin under brazing rod type silver solder, in practise.

-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on

"N_Cook" wrote in news:h9kis2$js2$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

My 15W Antex(both of them) has a metal tube with the ceramic/nichrome wire element inside it,the end is open,you can see it.It's grounded.

I used to file down the non-clad copper tips for use on SMD ICs,it seems all the tips I have now are the ironclad ones that you can't file down. I gotta find some of the non-clad tips.

Do they currently make Antex tips small enough for SMD work?

"N_Cook" wrote in news:h9q7pi$pec$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

there's "silver solder" and silver-BEARING solder,like the 3% Ag that TEK used for their ceramic strips in tube and 400 series scopes.

Yes.

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Dave Plowman snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.

And also specially shaped tips for removing SMD IC packages, all pins at once, and ones to fit all standard sizes of R and C SMD packages. I inherited a full set of these from a workshop that was packing it all in. They work very well, but are expensive to replace when they burn away.

Arfa

"Arfa Daily" wrote in news:uhywm.60853$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe09.ams:

ever use the Pace thermo-tweeze system? I wasn't very fond of it,those custom tips were unwieldy and as you say,costly.I think I'd prefer a hotplate and hot air gun with tweezers,or Chip-quik and the hot air gun..

Which they used because if the solder wasn't already saturated with silver, it'd destroy those silver-on-ceramic terminal strips in one second. Nice of them to include a little coil of the stuff in every 'scope.

Isaac

Yes - but hot air systems were very expensive when introduced. Although of course so was most Pace stuff. ;-)

To distinguish the difference, some folks have been referring to the electronics-related stuff as "silver-bearing solder". . . We got Arfa using this the other week. Maybe this week we can get your sad blockquoting fixed.

This is a 3rd-party update for M$'s non-compliant software:

isw wrote:

FYI: You're not telling Yanik anything new; he was once a Tek guy.

Indeed you did ! Everyone says it looks much better now, so best of all worlds. I'm still able to use OE which I find 'comfortable' for posting to and reading from text groups, and no one has to moan that my blockquoting looks poor :-)

Dead easy install, and transparent in use. Thoroughly recommended. Now if we can just fix top posters ...

Arfa

They aren't hard to fix. The hard part is getting them to the Veterinarian's office. ;-)