George received a freebee Flux remover spray from Farnell. Flux is awesome, we cannot imagine soldering SMD components without it. The down side is that they usually leave residue on the board. This spray is one way to remove it. Point the can on the area you want to clean and the high pressured chemicals […]
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New 7400 Competition sponsor: Farnell
Farnell is a last minute sponsor of the Open 7400 Logic Competition. They’re donated the flux syringe and springy metal soldering iron cleaner thing we reviewed here on the blog. Get your entry in soon and this and other cool hardware can be yours.
Tool update: Flux and a soldering tip dry cleaner
Flux helps solder flow better, and keeps it out of places you don’t want it. Don’t even try to solder without copious amounts of this magic goo. For the past few weeks used a freebie EDSYN FL-22 flux syringe from Farnell. 5ml is about $15 in Europe, US availability is limited. The flux showed up […]
Farnell flux freebies
Farnell/element14 offered us free stuff to test drive advertise for them. We hardly ever buy from Farnell, but hey, free. We wanted something we could actually try out and evaluate in the workshop. There’s not much point in comparing capacitors from Farnell and Mouser. A couple types of flux seemed like a good idea: EDSYN […]