Thread: Soldering tips
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Old 18 July 2013, 18:34   #18
pandy71
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Originally Posted by demolition View Post
If you're having trouble with the solder wick, it might be because your iron temperature is not high enough. Nothing will happen if you try it with the iron set to 300 degrees. I find that around 400 degrees is suitable for that purpose.

This is always tricky but temperature should be around 320 - 360 C deg, for larger part higher, for smaller lower (as large parts remove heat from tip more efficiently thus you need provide more heat) - there is always balance between self cleaning (as there is always limit for flux - bellow some temperature flux simply will not work) and excessive oxidation.

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Originally Posted by prowler View Post
Discussing the merits or otherwise of lead-free soldering is off-topic in this thead. Please leave it at that.
Sorry - simply RoHS are not safe (higher melting point bad for components) nor reliable from Amiga perspective.
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