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Thursday 11 October 2018

Solder - further testing of Chinese brands

Well, I tried a few more brands of Chinese solder. One was actually very good but I haven't time tonight to track down a picture for the summary.. I will though, because I will be buying more of it.

In the meantime I do not recommend this brand:
For a moment this looked like a surprisingly good solder.

I was wrong. What appeared to be good joints too often turned out to be dry joints.And this was a thick 0.8mm solder wire. I shudder to think how poor a thinner wire from this manufacturer would have been.