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Soldering Saturday (lemmy.world)

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[–] Adair21 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Pinecil is a good station, but you should also look for a larger bevel tip to use with it.

I'm using a flux syringe for easier application. And solder does have a flux core but that quickly burns away and is only useful if you're feeding solder directly into the joint. I place extra flux on the wire and pad and then load my tip up with solder

[–] dmenezes 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Pinecil is a good station

And it has its own RISC-V MCU and runs opensource IronOS which really tickles my geek bone ... ;-)

but you should also look for a larger bevel tip to use with it.

I was planning on getting the whole set of "normal fine" tips; perhaps I should get the "normal gross set" instead? Or both? Or either/both of the gross or/and fine "short" sets?

Now I'm confused... 🙃

I’m using a flux syringe for easier application. And solder does have a flux core but that quickly burns away and is only useful if you’re feeding solder directly into the joint. I place extra flux on the wire and pad and then load my tip up with solder

Thanks for the pro advice! Will be sure to get one of these too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The fine one is better in my opinion