Wipe off any excess solder after making a joint. After making a joint, the craftsman should wipe any excess solder off the joint. This creates a neat appearance. While the joint is still hot, wipe it ...

Strip off an inch of insulation, give the wires a light twist, dip them into flux, and start Hoovering up excess solder. Zip cord from old lamps and extension cords works too.

Always use rosin flux solder for electronics, never acid flux. That’s the kind plumbers use to join or “sweat” pieces of copper pipe. ... Most soldering stations have a spot for a damp sponge to wipe ...

Claiming to remove up to four times more solder than conventional wicks and faster than wicks based on Type-R fluxes, this new solder wick is made from fine copper wire woven ...

[Adrian] used liquid rosin flux and a generous layer of 60:40 solder, which was followed by removing the excess with desoldering braid. That worked great and got the pins on both sides of the ...

Welcome to another in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 20 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This post ...