Re: Soldering crusty wires

wire wool (steel wool?)

strip the insulation, bunch the wool round it, grasp and pul, repeat until the wire shines.

simple :)

or buy new, non-cruddy wire and replace :)

Andy Welburn
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: David Shoemaker
  To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
  Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:46 AM
  Subject: VECTOR: Soldering crusty wires

  Working on repairing a choped wiring harness. Striped off the insulation on a couple of the wires and they are brown with oxidation. No way in hell I can get the solder to do anything other than roll off and land on my leg (possibly burning through my pants on the way :)

  Anyone have a trick to clean this stuff off well enough to solder?

  I am using standard 60/40 rosin core solder.

  Thanks,
  David

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Received on Fri Feb 9 06:46:34 2001