Re: Extra flux anyone?
Ahhhh... Fluxite.... memory lane time.
I delved into my old stuff and found my tin of ...
"Baker's Solderine" (no gnomes unforunately!) which I think I bought in about 1966.
It was a mildly activated rosin paste, and worked well with soldering onto the metal chassis of old valve radios etc.
Amazingly, it is still available, with same name.
Chemicals are prolly slightly different.
Nowadays I use a NoClean gel flux in a pen.
And like OldJohn, I am using this more and more.
Magic for very mild corrosion on old component leads.
If I am repairing vintage stuff, and looking for suspect joints, and resoldering, I always use this stuff.
The pen means you can apply a smidgen (technical term) to even DIL IC leads etc.
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