Solder Iron and Stuff???

[tirthankar]

isnt this a rohs solder, the unleaded one, very hard to unsolder i heard?

I have used the same solder. It is an excellent solder to work with.. flows like anything, creates great joints and not tough to unsolder either with a wick because of its good flow ability. I use a 35W soldron for my work. It heats quickly and allows for a quick in and out.

 

[doors666]

Silver solder:
I have WBT,very easyto work ,remove too as low melting point.. ask anyone wbt is worldwide fav,RhoS complience doesnot mean solder will be sticky .

I see good reviews for wbt. might go for it.

my understanding was rohs meant no lead, and lack of lead made it difficult to unsolder, i guess i was wrong.

 

[kaushik]

Due to huge demad WBT i may consider to get as spool and add oprional in SOLDER KIT

 

[viki_v2]

Hello Friends,
Can any one guide whore to buy Solder paste in Mumbai- For Smd components.

 

[kaushik]

Hello Friends,
Can any one guide whore to buy Solder paste in Mumbai- For Smd components.

go to mobile repair tool shop and get a paste flux

 

[vijaycool]

What do you suggest for micro soldering station
products
Soldering Stations | Variable Wattage Micro-Soldering Station | Micro-Soldering Station

There is a smps type soldering station is available in Soldron but I dont think its temperature controllable and the cost is very much within the budget but no price info for MAX.
I had Original Soldron 25W for 210bucks and it went off within a week. Later I got generic 80buck soldering iron and it worked for 6 months and gone. Got a replacement heater for 25Rs. I searched entire Ritche street for the heating element but I couldnt find the heater core. I am skeptic of soldron due to lack of availability of parts.

Regards,
Vijay

 

[vijaycool]

Soldron varitemp soldering iron is shown in their website. I think this would be helpful for DIYers and the mrp mentioned is INR500.
http://www.soldron.com/products/product-details.asp?p_id=26

Regards,
Vijay

 

[kaushik]

What do you suggest for micro soldering station
products
Soldering Stations | Variable Wattage Micro-Soldering Station | Micro-Soldering Station

There is a smps type soldering station is available in Soldron but I dont think its temperature controllable and the cost is very much within the budget but no price info for MAX.
I had Original Soldron 25W for 210bucks and it went off within a week. Later I got generic 80buck soldering iron and it worked for 6 months and gone. Got a replacement heater for 25Rs. I searched entire Ritche street for the heating element but I couldnt find the heater core. I am skeptic of soldron due to lack of availability of parts.

Regards,
Vijay

hehe that is not original SOLDRON or you have a wiring fault .
There are well made copies of soldron ...perfectly goes off in 1-2 months .

SMD iron :no need to be expensive , you can go for MaxGold .I use even cheap RE-cord, works fine.The tip dies in 4 months ,new tip is 15/- who cares

 

[vijaycool]

Can you tell me the approx price of Max Gold 535. Just a ball park figure is fine. I will go to Ritchie street in a day or two. what about Vari temperature soldering iron

 

[doors666]

I got hybrid brand of solder from sp road. 600gms costs around 600-650 bucks. Its 63/37 (eutectic) solder with flux in the core. pretty good i would say, melts quite fast. I also got their flux, I think it costed me some 50-60 bucks and inside it looks like its rosin. Anyone else tried it.

 

[corElement]

I used a cheap 45w chinese one without any brand to fix these two broken joints and bring a sony 909es amplifier back from the dead!

 

[haisaikat]

After trying in vain with some cheap 40 50 Rs local solders to meet home DIY needs (with the cheap ones either the tip breaks or the wire gets burnt or the soldering is messy with a oversized bit area), finally ordered the following soldron kit from ebay for Rs 1499 shipped

WIRE SOLDER TUBE LEAD KIT - HIGH QUALITY GGIndia New Soldering -- SOLDERING IRON | eBay

Truly soldron equipments are very very good as I can see, it is a vari-temp soldering iron that I have set at less than midway (the vari knob) and the iron becomes ready to apply in around a minute happens and the main difference is the bit-perfect soldering that is needed in smaller areas like soldering wires to LED light strips, etc.

 

[linuxguru]

isnt this a rohs solder, the unleaded one, very hard to unsolder i heard?

I don't know about that specific WBT solder, but there is a lead-free solder available on S.P.Road that is fairly smooth-flowing with a 40W Goot soldering iron. This is called SACX 0307, and it is mostly pure tin with a small fraction of Silver, Copper and Bismuth.

I have assembled a couple of MyRefs as well as some other smaller boards with this solder, and it seems to work well, though the joints have a dull grey finish even when they're good. You will need higher iron temperatures and wattage, but reworking is fairly easy with a desolder pump or wick, once you get used to the higher temperatures and viscosity.

Pros:

1) It does work even on surfaces containing lead, and generally easily wets all the conventional metals normally encountered in electronics soldering - tin, copper, brass, nickel, kovar, silver, gold, etc.

2) Compatible with older Sn-Pb solders, so it can be used for repair or rework of existing equipment.

Cons:

1) Higher temperatures make it easier to damage or delaminate some cheap PCBs. Don't even try to repair Marantz CD players with this solder.

2) Ditto for polystyrene and certain other expensive film/foil caps - they'll get damaged if you linger with the tip for more than 3-4 seconds.

3) Large ground planes and big electrolytics require higher wattage.

4) The solder is expensive, at Rs.1500 for 500 gms, which is usually the minimum reel size available.