[Towertalk] Soldering at the top of the tower

k4oj k4oj@tampabay.rr.com
Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:19:42 -0400


unless you are overapllying - the paste flux goes up in smoke so to 
speak with only an occassional droplet.

I also clean the oxidation off of the "inner" aluminum tubing before 
applying noalox and overlapping it into the next size up - to me using 
flux is similar - it is like insurance!

K4OJ


mcduffie@actcom.net wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:39:49 -0500, Jon Ogden wrote:
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>>I solder my PL-259's all the time w/o flux.
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>Likewise.  I've never used flux (other than what's in good quality solder)
>on a connector and can't imagine putting that messy stuff on the parts.  How
>would you clean it off of the surfaces and out of the inners?
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>Forty plus years of soldering PL's, and a firm believer.
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