We’ve posted about homemade flux before, but Tom has taken it to a whole new level. He used pine gum straight from the tree for his Flux recipe. He dissolved the rosin in some 99% isopropyl alcohol, and filtered it using coffee filters. I tried making flux from an even more raw material, pine gum […]
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Guest Review: Chipquik smd291nl no-clean tack flux
Sheldon has been using the Chipquik SMD291NL no clean tack flux, here is his review of it: Very tacky, can hold qfn and dfn by itself, once heated it becomes very sticky and is hard to clean even with 91% ipa. It works great though, have not had any problems with it not wicking solder […]
Workshop Update for June 14th, 2012
Today we worked on the homemade flux video. Documentation for the Part Ninja continued. Most of the part recognition diagrams are uploaded, and the information on how the Part Ninja identifies different parts was added. Today we took a look at the Bus Blaster, and how we could improve it. This project is very far […]
WORKSHOP VIDEO #26: How to make a simple soldering flux
Flux is a wonderful goo that makes soldering faster and easier. In previous videos we compared different types of commercial flux (Flux off 1, Flux off 2), but did you know it’s possible to make a simple and effective flux at home? We’ll get you started, and don’t miss the giveaway at the end of […]
WP to Twitter plugin seems to be down
Please excuse this test post, the WP to Twitter plugin that pushes blog posts to Twitter seems to be down. Please enjoy this homemade flux in lieu of an actual post.
Rosin giveaway winner received his prize
When we got back from our Global Geek Tour in Shenzhen we giveaway some rosin bars, for homemade flux. Ginpb wrote to let us know he received his. All that is left is for him to mix it with some alcohol, and he’ll have flux. I finally took 2 minutes to upload photos. Why is […]
WORKSHOP VIDEO #20: Flux-off part 2, more flux reviews
This week the flux-off solder flux comparison returns. Our everyday Edsyn FL-22 goes head to head with two AMTECH syringe fluxes in the TQFP arena. Just for fun, we also tried to solder with shards from a solid rosin block. Find out which flux reigns supreme. Edsyn FL22, our everyday favorite syringe flux AMTECH “USA” NC-559-ASM-TPF(UV) […]
Workshop Video #06: Battle of the solder flux
We broke out 4 different types of flux we had in the workshop and tried them with surface mount parts. Liquid flux, flux paste, syringe flux, and a flux marker are all tested. We used each to solder a 0805 resistor and some pins of a QFP 0.5mm pitch IC to an xQFP protoboard. Edsyn […]
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 […]
TOOLS: Soldering supplies
Our favorite tools have a new home on the wiki. Each week we’ll muse about one of them. Have your own tool review? We’ll post that too! This week’s tool is a collection of stuff: the things we use for soldering. We regularly work with surface mount (SMD) parts down to 0603, but it doesn’t […]