unless you are overapllying - the paste flux goes up in smoke so to
speak with only an occassional droplet.
I also clean the oxidation off of the "inner" aluminum tubing before
applying noalox and overlapping it into the next size up - to me using
flux is similar - it is like insurance!
K4OJ
mcduffie@actcom.net wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:39:49 -0500, Jon Ogden wrote:
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>>I solder my PL-259's all the time w/o flux.
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>Likewise. I've never used flux (other than what's in good quality solder)
>on a connector and can't imagine putting that messy stuff on the parts. How
>would you clean it off of the surfaces and out of the inners?
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>Forty plus years of soldering PL's, and a firm believer.
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