How To Make Homemade Soldering Flux
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How to make homemade soldering flux. In previous videos we compared different types of commercial flux but did you know its possible to make a simple and effective flux at home. It is used when metal is melted and soldered. Place the strainer in the kitchen sink for washing later.
Gets like graysilver toothpaste. Ok done that but that for great results an activator is needed. You can now use the pine tar-alcohol mixture as your flux.
The natural pine tar in the cone leaves works as a flux and can be extracted. In the soldering of metals flux serves a threefold purpose. Ad Octopart Is The Preferred Search Engine for Electronic Parts.
Do nothing until all of the juice has strained through. Stir the juice in the container for 10 seconds with the wooden spoon. In this video I use a 5050 combo of the two.
If lumpy u need more flux gel work it smooth. Table salt is one ingredient of homemade silver soldering flux. The citric acid flux you have made can now be used to prepare metal for soldering.
Add 100ml of Isopropyl alcohol and 50ml of Ethyl acetate to the 850ml of the Ethanol in the container. Soft flux melts at a temperature of not more than 400ºС. M ZnCl 2 MZnOCl 2.