- Joined
- Dec 17, 2000
- Location
- Deep in the friendzone
I'm in a place where I can't just go to radio shack or home depot and go picking through the different odds and ends that they have for my projects. I need to plan them out in their entirety a month in advance, if not more.
My current project for my desktop has me doing some wiring inside my case, and since I don't like to just twist-n-tape I solder the connections, then tape. I'd use heatshrink but those heatshrink 'kits' you find on modding sites are a bit too expensive for something that I can just do with electrical tape. (And I don't have a hairdryer to shrink it with)
The problem is, I've run out of solder. My old roll was unmarked, and I seem to recall it being called 'low-temp' solder...probably a resin core.
I've got a dinky little 30Watt Soldering Iron that I got off ebay for a buck or so with shipping. Probably doesn't spit out too much heat.
So I headed over to McMaster.com to finally buy some Tygon for my watercooling setup (besides the fact that they sell everything from screwdrivers to Bathroom Monkeys (^tm)) So I headed over to the solder section (page 3162) and was promptly stumped.
...I was going to ask about lead/tin ratios and what temp people think a 30W iron can melt, but this is long enough as it is.
So my question probably should be:
What kind of solder should one get for a 30W soldering iron to do simple soldering of things onto PCB boards like a video card or motherboard, soldering lengths of wires together, and for soldering light-weight things to alluminum computer cases?
Wow. That was unnecessisarily long.
My current project for my desktop has me doing some wiring inside my case, and since I don't like to just twist-n-tape I solder the connections, then tape. I'd use heatshrink but those heatshrink 'kits' you find on modding sites are a bit too expensive for something that I can just do with electrical tape. (And I don't have a hairdryer to shrink it with)
The problem is, I've run out of solder. My old roll was unmarked, and I seem to recall it being called 'low-temp' solder...probably a resin core.
I've got a dinky little 30Watt Soldering Iron that I got off ebay for a buck or so with shipping. Probably doesn't spit out too much heat.
So I headed over to McMaster.com to finally buy some Tygon for my watercooling setup (besides the fact that they sell everything from screwdrivers to Bathroom Monkeys (^tm)) So I headed over to the solder section (page 3162) and was promptly stumped.
...I was going to ask about lead/tin ratios and what temp people think a 30W iron can melt, but this is long enough as it is.
So my question probably should be:
What kind of solder should one get for a 30W soldering iron to do simple soldering of things onto PCB boards like a video card or motherboard, soldering lengths of wires together, and for soldering light-weight things to alluminum computer cases?
Wow. That was unnecessisarily long.