How To Make Soldering Flux At Home

Does anyone know if this solder will have rosin Flux in it.

How to make soldering flux at home. Then make a blob of solder on the iron and wait till the flux evaporated. It only takes a very tiny droplet now that you simply touch to your solder lug or part and works great. When I get some more rosin ill make a RMA flux with with citric acid as the activator.

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. Pinecone flux can be made with 10-15 pinecones and some denatured ethyl alcohol. Flux is a must have product when doing any electronics work especially for surface mount parts.

As you do this make sure to touch the graphite using a free wire connected to the ground. You will be familiar with safety flux if you make tiffany-style copper foiled stained glass panels and if you are you may be interested in this posting because it can save you some money. It only says For electrical use only.

You have made one litre of flux remover that quantity should suffice for quite some time. Once you do this youll be ready to do test your soldering iron. How to make soldering flux at home.

Mix together 60 ml 2 fl oz Borax 60 ml 2 fl oz TSP and 90 ml 3 fl oz of boric acid in a pan. In previous videos we compared different types of commercial flux but did you know its possible to make a simple and effective flux at home. Well get you started and dont miss the giveaway at the end of the video.

I found this great video on making your own flux for soldering. 10 to 15 pine cones with pine tar sap on the ends of the cone leaves found around pine trees 1 Quart Denatured Ethyl Alcohol found in the wild at a hardware store or you could distill your own Tools required. Flux is first applied to the surface of such objects in order for them to take the soldering.