How To Make Soldering Flux Paste

Then with a needle hold the part in place touch the tip of the soldering iron to the edge of the pad on the board that you are soldering.

How to make soldering flux paste. DangPro shows you how to create your own solder flux. Take your hand torch and heat the ingot mould youre using. The alcohol will dissolve the pine tar from the leaves.

Wipe the pick off before you start soldering especially if the flux is visible. For flux for electrical soldering use rosin-based flux to make solid joints. Add approximately 250 ml 1 cup of water to the ingredients in the pan.

You dont need to be precise. If you apply too little the joints will not be strong and break easily. For plumbing joints recommended acid flux when soldering pipes because acids are more prone to remove oxide layers.

First put the solder paste on the pads and then use an needle or dental pick to carefully move excess on to the pad or remove it. 10 to 15 pine cones with pine tar sap on the ends of the cone leaves found around pine trees 1 Quart Denatured Ethyl Alcohol found in the wild at a hardware store or you could distill your own Tools required. In the soldering of metals flux serves a threefold purpose.

Solder paste flux serves a threefold purpose. Makes a bit more than 1 cc of solder paste. Mix together 60 ml 2 fl oz Borax 60 ml 2 fl oz TSP and 90 ml 3 fl oz of boric acid in a pan.

Flux is a must have product when doing any electronics work especially for surface mount parts. The stencil allows you to apply solder paste only in the areas you want. To make liquid soldering flux gather all the components firstThen make sure that lemon are you using is fresh so that it can give more citric acid than usual.