[mark_in_manc]

Hi folks - not sure where to put this, but I'll try here.

I have a vague memory of an old, now-late, friend telling me he used 'spirits of salts' as a soldering flux - in his case for soldering nipples onto the end of oily old cables for things like bicycle controls.

Having struggled with an OT soldering job lately, and failed with what I would view as 'normal' brown flux, I guessed that someone here would have experience with this, and some ideas to offer. Its suitability for electrical soldering, soldering to dirty chassis, tin-plate sheet work, as well as nipples on cables (perhaps an occasional UKVRRR need to do this) would all be of interest to me.

Thanks
Mark