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I have recently had a little trouble soldering my pick up in and have a couple of questions.
1) isn't the solder supposed to stay on the iorn until you touch it to the place you have fluxed (wire and connection point). The soldier would not stay on the iorn.

2) It seemed like it took forever for the soldier to melt is my iorn the problem?

(i used rosin core soldier so that is not the problem).any help would be appreciated.

what do you mean by quot;fluxedquot;. Your not suppoused to use flux when soldering electronics, It corrodes the metal.

Also, the solder isn't suppoused to quot;stay on the ironquot; until you touch it to where you want. Your suppoused to heat the part with the Iron, and then touch the solder to the part (while the iron is still touching the part). And the heat conducted through the part will melt the solder. The solder shouldn't really ever touch the Iron. Although it wouldn't hurt anything if it did.

You should try quot;tinningquot; the surfaces you want to solder first.
In case you don't know (and I'm assumeing you do), Tinning is when you heat both pieces to be soldered seperately beforehand, and apply a small amount of solder to each peice seperately. It helps get the connection made easyer later, when you actully solder the two peices together. And normally makes for a stronger connection.

Ed

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Bravo Chaos! good post


Originally Posted by Low_fidelity2100what do you mean by quot;fluxedquot;. Your not suppoused to use flux when soldering electronics, It corrodes the metal.

Chaos's post is excellent, but I did want to point out that this is so wrong.

Soldering flux is simply pine tar. It cleans the connection, just like your mom's Pine-Sol. You definitely should use it.

You may be thinking of the type of solder used for plumbing. Thats an acid core that will do what you say. As long as one uses solder made for electronics, flux is a good thing.