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Offline Dgsbllx

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Solder for Phantom
« on: Thu, 27 June 2013, 09:30:26 »
New to soldering so noob question  ;D

Was speaking to my neighbour about the phantom build, and mentioned I needed to do some soldering and was going to buy some and he gave me some solder;



Will this be alright for the phantom build?

Thanks in advance

edit; Should have asked in one of the threads rather than a new topic, sorry. Didn't even think about it  :-[
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Offline Tranquilite

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Re: Solder for Phantom
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 27 June 2013, 14:57:57 »
Should be just fine, though personally I prefer the stuff with lead in it.
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Offline asura

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Re: Solder for Phantom
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 27 June 2013, 15:03:12 »
Which is illegal in the EU...

Err on my part - illegal on anything sold in the EU, as a component it can be sold, and you can use it for your own purposes, but re-selling once used in assembly becomes illegal...  Gotta' love the EU

Double edit... someone should really tackle the wikipedia page on solder - it doesn't go into hard soldering at all...
« Last Edit: Thu, 27 June 2013, 15:09:03 by asura »
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Offline MJ45

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Re: Solder for Phantom
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 27 June 2013, 16:55:25 »
That looks too heavy, you should get some around 0.032 dia. or less. Leaded is also easier to use it has a lower melting point.
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Offline bazemk1979

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Re: Solder for Phantom
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 27 June 2013, 17:13:40 »
looks like a thick wire, you would want 0.3 or 0.2mm solder wire
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Offline Dgsbllx

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Re: Solder for Phantom
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 28 June 2013, 10:45:38 »
Thanks a lot for the replies!
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Offline oluf

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Re: Solder for Phantom
« Reply #6 on: Fri, 28 June 2013, 11:06:31 »
Check out the living soldering thread http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=42824.0

...and EEVBlog, http://www.eevblog.com/
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