best low-temp solder?

[JeffM]

plain old 60-40...worked well for me

Oh contraire Pierre - the question was ...."Favorites ?"
(look at the Original post)
That was mine - because it works for me.. sheesh !
Hal Rosser

Next time, just before you hit the Post button,
you might want to look at the title of the thread.
If he just meant *solder*,
he wouldn't have included *low-temp* in the Subject line.

 

[DaveB]

so -
what's your "favorite" solder, dude?

The silver stuff

Regards
Daveb

 

[NSM]

| >
| > Next time, just before you hit the Post button,
| > you might want to look at the title of the thread.
| > If he just meant *solder*,
| > he wouldn't have included *low-temp* in the Subject line.
| >
| so -
| what's your "favorite" solder, dude?

Best of British: "Multicore Solders Ltd, Kelsey House, Wood Lane End, Hemel
Hempstead"

N

 

[RST Engineering]

Back when I was doing microwave stripline-on-sapphire, the solder of choice
was a mixture of tin and indium (and perhaps a bit of bismuth) that we
called tindium. It melted well below the boiling point of water. (No, it
wasn't Wood's metal.)

Jim

 

[Roby]

I've had good luck with the kester 62/36/2% silver stuff, which is
eutectic.

Many many years ago, I had some luck with a indium-bismuth solder paste
in syringes from Indium Corp. Haven't fiddled with any of their stuff
since then.

Radio Shack sells a bag of little peices of tape-form stuff. Never got
it to work well.

Favorites?

Many many many years ago, one of my kid buddies built a Heathkit DX-35
transmitter. He couldn't get it to work, sold it to me.

The solder joints were absolutely TERRIBLE. Sooo, I plugged in my Weller
gun and remelted one. A puff of acrid smoke erupted. He had used "Liquid
Solder". Room temperature.

The good he had left all the component leads full-length, so I just
clipped everything out, replaced the toob sockets and tiepoints and
reinstalled the parts with real solder. It worked, I sold it.

Roby

 

[JeffM]

tindium. It melted well below the boiling point of water.

(No, it wasn't Wood's metal.)
Jim (RST Engineering)

I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard stories about guys
who make spoons of such stuff.
When the victim withdraws the stump from his coffee,
you're supposed to say,
"Man. That's some STRONG coffee".

 

[JeffM]

I have used hi-temp stuff for fixtures that go in burn-in ovens.
I almost always use readily-available 63/37.

Like you, I don't use low-temp solder.
Unlike you, I came to this thread to learn,
not to post OT comments.

 

[Mike]

I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard stories about guys
who make spoons of such stuff.

.... and there's no truth in the rumour that Uri Geller buys them in
bulk