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Old 11-05-2016, 04:49 PM
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Don Szczur
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Some soldering. This is a learning point. Local Hobby Shop has 60/40 in stock. I got it!!!. The lead free solder just does not work well on the very thin magnet wire. Even with lots of flux, the temperature of lead free solder is much higher than can easily solder these small wires. 60/40 works very well.

This is on the high end of work on the plane- for competitive F3P keeping the plane weight to an absolute minimum. Weight of items are taken in the tenths of a gram. Sanding the very tip of the wire. Its said that the soldering iron will melt off the wire insulation, but I've sanded slightly which provides a good solder wet.

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