Re: Soldering crusty wires

I always use liberal amounts of rosin flux and heat, I managed to burn off all of the corrosion without melting the wires. It makes a lot of smoke, but it works.
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  From: David Shoemaker
  To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
  Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:46 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 07:52:09 2001