How To Make Homemade Soldering Paste

Adjust the consistency of the paste by adding more flour to make it thicker or more water to make it runnier.

How to make homemade soldering paste. So 30 mins gives enough paste to do a whole board saving me at least 2. Accordingly can you solder without flux. The use of flux when soldering electronics is one of the fundamental skills that everyone who thinks of picking up a hot soldering iron should have.

Drag the paste across the board all in one movement. Judging by the emails I get this is mainly because of two reasons. Flux is a wonderful goo that makes soldering faster and easier.

Video Player is loading. Dispenser for flux - httpsgooglaw1e74Holder for PCB - httpsgoogl7Aa3pSHow to make solder paste. While continuing to press down drag the squeegee towards you both pulling the paste and pushing it down into the holes.

Paste on it with a brush. Safety glasses An old board to desolder A solder sucker Flux paste or soldering paste as it is sometimes called A pair of abrasive sponges or some kind of abrasives that wont leave its own dust or flake off A piece of paper to catch the solder dust A piece of plastic or something to mix the paste on. Place the rosin inside the jar if you cant wait for it to dissolve youd want to grind up the crystals to a fine dust this will vastly improve the time it takes to dissolve from hours to minutes.

Then you have to mix that 4 teaspoons full of tooth paste in 1 teaspoons full of Vaseline it should petroleum jelly not some other product of Vaseline brand. A better way would be to print the solder paste marks from our circuit we designed here and print it on the transparent film in an inkJet printer. The soldering section is cleared.

When solder paste is applied to the surface mount of the board wire and electrical component melt to provide the solder joints very easily. Mix the dry ingredients with just enough water to form a paste. Place 1 cup flour into the medium mixing bowl.