I did not touch a soldering iron when assembling the K3, not sure what there is to solder unless your making some mods. And solid wire solder would be a bear to use with no flux. Sure would not try using flux with it would be a huge mess of left over rosin. Cheaper to go buy a few feet of the correct solder. 73 Merv KH7C > The K3 was built on a RoHS process and technically you shouldn't mix the > processes (leaded solder with non leaded solder) that being said if > thats all you have then it will work. But the RoHS stuff can be had > fairly inexpensively... > > ~Brett (KC7OTG) > > On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 00:05 -0400, James Sarte wrote: > >> I know that Elecraft states that rosin core solder is the only type that >> should be used when it comes to circuit board assembly. However, can solid >> wire solder (lead) be used as well? I have a whole spool of .020 solid wire >> solder sitting around, and would like to know if I can use this stuff on the >> K3. >> >> >> >> James K2QI >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > >
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