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Flux for Aqua safe solder
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Sat Sep 20, 2014 3:17 pmby RuddyCrazy
G'day guy's,
Yesterday I bought some aquasafe solder at bunnings and the plumbing flux, which was the only flux they had. Had a go using it and that flux does seem to be the wrong one as the solder just balls and doesn't flow. So what is the right flux to use with this solder ??????
Re: Flux for Aqua safe solder
Posted:
Sat Sep 20, 2014 3:40 pmby dogbreath vodka
Baker's soldering fluid works well
DBV
Re: Flux for Aqua safe solder
Posted:
Sat Sep 20, 2014 4:15 pmby Yummyrum
Hopefully you did not get Ezi-weld 602 which is a brazing flux.
Re: Flux for Aqua safe solder
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Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:43 pmby Yummyrum
Just to add ...Flux for soldering usually contains Zinc Chloride whereas flux for Brazing contains Borax .
Funnily I always remember my Grandad who was old school plumber .....way back I was only 10years old ...he showed me making flux by putting chopped up pieces of Galvanized iron in in Hydrochloric acid for a while until the galv was all dissolved .....it fizzed and bubbled , what was left was as he called it "killed Salts" ...or Zinc Chloride , the bubbles were the released Hydrogen
Re: Flux for Aqua safe solder
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Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:21 amby dogbreath vodka
Interesting you should mention "killed salts" Yummy.
A bloke I knew use to do something similar and called it "dead lead"
DBV