[TowerTalk] How To Remove Tarnish off Bare Copper Wires

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

The "secret" to soldering wires together outside is to use "Stay-Brite" 
solder available at any welding supply shop.  It is something like 96%
tin, 4% silver, and ZERO% lead.  It does have a melting point about
100 deg C higher than 63/37 so use a decent soldering iron/torch.  I 
have thousands of outdoor Stay-Brite joints that are going
on 25 years old that are doing fine.

73
Rick N6RK

On 2/19/2023 4:06 AM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> I quit soldering copper wires together outside years ago.  Use a
> copper split bolt instead.  Fast, easy, weather doesn't matter, works
> FB for years and years, never had one fail.
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
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