Well. I've done it, at least partially, and it does works. I've stood and watched someone doing at an exhibition, too.
The problem is that the type of sored solder we are talking about has a higher melting point and it was a lot harder to get the heat into the solder and the workpiece to effect a good joint.
I much prefer lower melting point solder and the only reason I use liquid flux is that I don't have low melt solder in flux-cored form.
MBQ
Can't seem to get my newsreader to co-operate at the moment --- my reference was that your soldering method ,( blob, paint, hide, deny etc) seemed awefully like the present UK government's methods for running the country.
Jim Guthrie wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Actually it's about time I came clean, just like John I have a *big* tin of Fluxite (thanks Dad!) and I *do* use it when I'm soldering rail or any other similar electrical job (brass/whitemetal I use liquid solders and appropriate solder strip), and like you I use Carrs 188 degree paint to tin the iron when I'm finished.
So I suppose it's hands up to me being a hypocrite - sure I say you don't need anything else other than what I've already mentioned to solder wire to rail and I do believe I'm correct ... however dad taught me to solder and old lessons last longer. :-)
Chris,
My Dad tought me when it was copper bits heated on the gas stove - built my first transistor receiver on the hob of the gas stove with copper bit and Fluxite :-)
I'm not saying that it is not possible to use cored solder on its own to make a lot of joints around a model railway, but it can occasionally bite you on the bum when situations are not quite suitable and you get too much oxidisation for the minimal amount of cored flux to cope with, or you have to pile on too much solder to get a good joint. For a beginner, those situations could probably crop up quite often, and a touch of an appropriate flux will help them out no end.
Jim.
I see and almost correct, I dont deny any of it. Should anyone be determined to see the errors of my way then they deserve to be rewarded - but only once.
I do agree re this government though.
A final hint that I dont think has been mentioned is to give the areas that are to be soldered a bit of a rub with wet and dry sandpaper - even some freshly stripped wire can be easier to solder to after that.
Cheers, Simon
Another contributor determined to have the last word .....
"simon" wrote in news:d8mdnX54n5Ns-V snipped-for-privacy@bt.com:
So wot you goin' t'ah dah abaht it?
:-)
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