How To Make Soldering Flux At Home

Well get you started and dont miss the giveaway at the end of the video.

How to make soldering flux at home. As you do this make sure to touch the graphite using a free wire connected to the ground. So thats 32 oz. I Googled flux remover and it ranges from 10 to 25 for 12 oz.

10 to 15 pine cones with pine tar sap on the ends of the cone leaves found around pine trees 1 Quart Denatured Ethyl Alcohol found in the wild at a hardware store or you could distill your own Tools required. Then make a blob of solder on the iron and wait till the flux evaporated. Once you do this youll be ready to do test your soldering iron.

Flux is a wonderful goo that makes soldering faster and easier. After you have the flux-rosin tea simply take a syringe and draw the liquid flux into it staying away from the vasoline-like goo part. The natural pine tar in the cone leaves works as a flux and can be extracted.

It removes oxidation from the surfaces to be soldered. In the soldering of metals flux serves a threefold purpose. This is super simple a combo of alcohol and acetone.

Only two ingredients are required. It only says For electrical use only. DangPro shows you how to create your own solder flux.

Wipe any excess flux off your fingers or brush before soldering. Add 100ml of Isopropyl alcohol and 50ml of Ethyl acetate to the 850ml of the Ethanol in the container. It seals out air thus preventing further oxidation and by facilitating amalgamation improves wetting characteristics of the liquid solder.