Never heard of it "spoiling". Multicore produced some rather 'evil' stuff
at one time a few years back. The flux smells peculiar and doesn't work
well. Suspect it might be some water washoff type or some low residue
stuff. It's really lousy solder whatever they did to it! Last batch of
sol
I just finished off a roll of Kester which was probably more than 10 years
old. It was good to the end.
Bob W2WG
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Interesting question. Where I worked for many years we had very specific
shelf life manuals on things organic like epoxies and paints and plastics. I'm
not sure if I recall any shelf life on resin core solder. I have had rolls of
the stuff that were 25 years old before they were used up, and
In a recent message, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ...
Does solder eventually "go bad?"
I am still using 60/40 Multicore solder that I "inherited" from a
previous employer forty years ago and it still works fine. I built my
K2, K1 & KX1, etc with it with no problems.
73
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David G4DMP
Lee
On 6/17/07, David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am still using 60/40 Multicore solder that I "inherited" from a
previous employer forty years ago and it still works fine. I built my
K2, K1 & KX1, etc with it with no problems.
That's the same stuff I'm using. I bought a reel as a kid of 1
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