<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If you are feeling very "DIY", you can apparently make your own rosin flux from pine sap and alcohol.<div><a href="http://smokedprojects.blogspot.ca/2012/09/diy-solder-flux-from-pine-resin.html">http://smokedprojects.blogspot.ca/2012/09/diy-solder-flux-from-pine-resin.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>And more on different flux types and the DIY but using commercial rosin:</div><div><a href="http://themakersworkbench.com/DIY-Solder-Flux">http://themakersworkbench.com/DIY-Solder-Flux</a></div><div><a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Flux,_flux,_flux">http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Flux,_flux,_flux</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 2012-10-10, at 11:12 AM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:30:37AM -0400, Henri Kuschkowitz wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was just wondering if anyone had a particular solder paste to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">recommend I should get that stands out from others?<br></blockquote><br>I got both liquid with a one-time use syringe and a paste.<br><br>The liquid ate away at they syringe and started to eat away at the<br>plastic, making it leak, then drying out, indeed making it one-time use.<br><br>I still have the liquid bottle with no applicator, but also have the<br>paste, so I now mostly use the paste.<br><br>Make sure you get a flux paste rather than an acid paste. This<br>shouldn't be difficult because I think the acid paste is deprecated or<br>only used in heavy duty applications.<br><br>As far as brands go, I don't remember any other than Kester...<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Henri<br></blockquote><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>slainte mhath, RGB<br><br>--<br>Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <<a href="http://hpv.tricolour.net">hpv.tricolour.net</a>><br><<a href="http://www.TriColour.net">www.TriColour.net</a>> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike!<br>Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\%<br>Vote! -- <<a href="http://greenparty.ca">greenparty.ca</a>>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Lab mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca">Lab@artengine.ca</a><br>http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>