From: pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net   
      
   On 2020-08-17 23:44, Michael_A_Terrell wrote:   
   > AK wrote:   
   >>   
   >> How are you managing to splatter solder that far?   
   >>   
   >> Solder melts, not explodes.   
   >   
   >   
   >     Only a fool would believe that.   
   >   
   >     I was re-soldering a lug on a tube socket of some Military surplus   
   > when I was about 16. The bad joint was full of rosin that tossed the   
   > solder about 18 inches and onto my bare thigh. It was summertime, and I   
   > didn't expect it. It was too hot for pants, so I received a nasty burn   
   > that took months to heal. It looked like someone had put out a cigar on   
   > my skin. The burn was bigger than a US nickle.   
   >   
   > I've had cheap rosin cored solder do similar, but not near as much   
   > molten solder. I switched to Ersin Multicore in 1970 and never looked back.   
      
   Maybe we can get into a my-favourite-editor argument about solder. ;)   
   I'm a Kester 44 man all the way--I have a lot of well-aged junkbox   
   parts, and RA flux is the bomb.   
      
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