Off season skills: Learn how to Solder

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Off season skills: Learn how to Solder

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18-08-2013, 13:08

Jim Wilks

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Re: Off season skills: Learn how to Solder

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Originally Posted by magnets

Lead free solder is awful. I don't use it. It's much easier to end up with a cold solder joint. Have you every had a ps3/xbox fail on you? It's probably because a lead free solder joint got too hot during operation, and got ruined.

Given that lead-free solder always has a higher melting temperature than lead solder, I can't see the logic of this statement.

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