Thanks! Sorry about that. I was using my SMART phone and something happened to the link on the way to being posted. So I will try and re-post the link using this STUPID laptop. I lost connectivity last night. Actually the problem is with TelCel and it's owner Carlos Slim. Richest man in the world, high phone rates and service equal to rural Yemen.
I CAN NOT SIGN BACK IN TO AMAZON.COM EASILY. There is an Amazon store down here by default sign in.
So I refer AMAZON then insert the search parameters so people can find things on AMAZON.COM. Easy? Huh?
Mastercraft 60/40 Solder - 1 Lb.
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It takes me between eight to twelve minutes to heat a large lug with a 500 watt WEN soldering gun. My D550 260 watt gun is even slower. Six gauge is about the limit I can personally tolerate. Torch 1 min. Versus 10X slower.
For folks who solder very little if at all here is an excerpt from WikiPedia. I damned sure won't type up a dissertation
Tin-lead Sn-Pb solders, also called soft solders, are commercially available with tin concentrations between 5% and 70% by weight. The greater the tin concentration, the greater the solderโs tensile and shear strengths. Alloys commonly used for electrical soldering are 60/40 Sn-Pb, which melts at 188 ยฐC (370 ยฐF), and 63/37 Sn-Pb used principally in electrical/electronic work. 63/37 is a eutectic alloy of these metals, which:
has the lowest melting point (183 ยฐC or 361 ยฐF) of all the tin-lead alloys; and
the melting point is truly a point โ not a range.
In plumbing, a higher proportion of lead was used, commonly 50/50. This had the advantage of making the alloy solidify more slowly. With the pipes being physically fitted together before soldering, the solder could be wiped over the joint to ensure watertightness. Although lead water pipes were displaced by copper when the significance of lead poisoning began to be fully appreciated, lead solder was still used until the 1980s because it was thought that the amount of lead that could leach into water from the solder was negligible from a properly soldered joint. The electrochemical couple of copper and lead promotes corrosion of the lead and tin. Tin, however, is protected by insoluble oxide. Since even small amounts of lead have been found detrimental to health,[7] lead in plumbing solder was replaced by silver (food-grade applications) or antimony, with copper often added, and the proportion of tin was increased (see Lead-free solder.)
The addition of tinโmore expensive than leadโimproves wetting properties of the alloy; lead itself has poor wetting characteristics. High-tin tin-lead alloys have limited use as the workability range can be provided by a cheaper high-lead alloy.[8]
In electronics, components on printed circuit boards (PCBs) are connected to the printed circuit, and hence to other components, by soldered joints. For miniaturized PCB joints with surface mount components, solder paste has largely replaced solid solder.
