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Hi,
The liquid will work but the paste will stay where you put it.
dave
The liquid will work but the paste will stay where you put it.
dave
One tip trick for tinning parts, especially the barrel. Dry clamp your part in place on the barrel and draw a line around it with soap stone (found in the welding section anywhere that sells welding stuff).
Then once you have your line drawn around your part, color the barrel with the soap stone right up to your line and make sure you go all the way around the barrel. Go out to the sides about an inch from your part is enough.
Why the soap stone?
Because solder won't stick to it under any circumstances and clean up is much quicker.
Nothing more aggravating that cleaning solder runs and drips off the part of the barrel that you want to blue or brown. Using the soap stone trick the only place that will tin up is the place where the part sits.
Dave I have a few questions ,what wire do you use to hold your lug on and what do you use for a heat source.thankyou.Hi,
The liquid will work but the paste will stay where you put it.
dave
Awesome! Great tip. Thanks DaveHi,
Nice job. I don't tin the lugs and barrel. I sweat the solder under the base. I simply clean the joints with acetone, flux the barrel and lug, hold the lug in place with wire, and tilt the barrel over a bit to the side so gravity helps the flow of the solder. Then I lay a piece of solder on the top edge of the base and heat from below, drawing the solder toward the heat. Clean-up is easy.
dave
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