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  • Jon_Servo@lemmy.worldtoCool Guides@lemmy.caA cool guide to soldering
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    1 month ago

    Utilize Flux and alcohol. Clean with alcohol utilizing a wipe-clean-wipe method. After soldering with Flux, clean off residual Flux with alcohol. Leaving Flux can promote corrosion. My phone keeps autocorrecting Flux to capitalize it, and I don’t care enough to fix it. 🤷‍♂️

    Edit: Do not use clinical isopropyl alcohol solutions (~70% whatever). Those solutions need some water to work as a disinfectant. You want as little water as possible (>99% solution).

    Believe it or not, isopropyl alcohol leaves residue behind. If you’ve ever wiped a shiny metal surface with it, you might see it looks a bit duller. Wiping after using alcohol is attempting to remove the residue to give the cleanest bonding surface possible.