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    #1

    Good Price On Desoldering Braid

    Well I just ran out of my 100 feet of desoldering braid had it for about a year.

    So in a pinch I went to Radioshack and picked up their braid and got ripped $3.99 for a mere 5 feet. Unfortunately Radioshack must have switched their OEM for braid because unlike their older braid that I'd used this braid was very coarsely woven and tended to unravel when you used it.

    I pushed through with it until it was gone and decided to look for a sufficient quantity of some good braid online.

    I ended up purchasing 100 feet of SPC technology braid for 45 bucks plus shipping from Newark a year ago. The braid was nice and worked well. But this still seemed like way too much to me so when I ran out I did some searching and I found a good deal this time.

    Here it is I figured I'd share it:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=280375213973

    The braid is made in the USA by Techspray in Amarillo, Texas. 50 feet long 2.5mm wide.

    If you just solder every now and then this can be a lifetime supply .

    I have no relation with the seller but I am a happy customer.
    Last edited by Krankshaft; 01-02-2010, 01:18 PM.
    Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.
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    #2
    Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

    >If you just solder every now and then this can be a lifetime supply

    you mean "if you just DEsolder now and then"...
    <wink>

    i bought some small amount of braid a while ago, and it'll surely last me long...as i use pump...heh....

    this
    http://www.chemtronics.com/products/...?r=1&m=2&id=23
    100feet of 2.8mm costs about 22$.
    (offcourse, prices here are usually 2x those in usa, so...., and yeah, i only got 1.5 or 3m packs(one wide and one..))

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      #3
      Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

      What is this for exactly? Usually I just heat up the iron to desolder, what will this do?

      Please pardon my ignorance.

      Thanks
      "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

      -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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        #4
        Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

        Desoldering braid is put over a soldered joint you then place your iron over it. It wicks the solder into it via capillary action.

        I personally can't stand solder suckers they just don't work for me. The only time I use them is if I have to remove lots of solder which would waste too much braid. I then use the braid to remove what the sucker couldn't.

        Using it takes some practice like learning how to solder you have to learn how to desolder with it. But once you know how to use it you won't go back.
        Last edited by Krankshaft; 01-02-2010, 06:28 PM.
        Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.

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          #5
          Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

          Suckers never worked well for me either.

          I think I will give this stuff a try. Thanks!
          "We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."

          -Leonid Brezhnev (On the Yom Kippur War)

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            #6
            Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

            You'll love it and the Techspray stuff has the best flux on it so it works better.

            The flux on the Radio Shack stuff isnt as good.

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              #7
              Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

              Re Suckers, whenever I empty mine I wonder about all that lead. The powder that comes out is extremely fine, like talcum powder, and it's mostly lead. When you trigger the suck and the air whooshes in, in goes the lead. When you recharge it though, the air inside the chamber is pushed out the front, probably with an invisible cloud of powdered lead. Gotta wonder.

              Braid avoids the problem, but make sure you get the kind with flux in it. Solder likes flux.

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                #8
                Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                Unless your nose is right on the board snorting the air from the sucker I doubt anything will come of it.

                Yeah this braid is the good stuff with rosin flux none of that no clean crap. Just got 2 more rolls so I have 100 feet in reserve.

                I once bought solder with no clean flux by mistake the joints looked horrible. It looked like I was soldering with a lead free solder the joints were all cloudy normal for PB free but not for Sn / Pb.

                Can't imagine it's any better at removing solder than it is applying it.
                Last edited by Krankshaft; 01-07-2010, 10:29 PM.
                Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.

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                  #9
                  Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                  powder?
                  what powder?
                  what kind of solder is that?

                  never saw anything like that....some fumes, yeah, powder? no.

                  also lead's melting point is much higher than that of solder, so i doubt you're seeing lead.

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                    #10
                    Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                    I occasionally get tiny chunks of solder when dumping out my solder sucker bulb and rare occasions when I use it.

                    Thought that's what he was referring to. It is possible it could be rosin flux residue it's usually a goldish color when undisturbed and white when scraped off something.
                    Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.

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                      #11
                      Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                      now it seems to me he's reffering to solder when he says "lead".
                      and he thinks that this "lead" is somehow vaporized into air, and that he'll inhale it.

                      far from saying those fumes are healthy(heh) it's still not "lead in the air".

                      more like "rosin in the air"..heh
                      https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/pdfs/...b716ac3fc1.pdf

                      but a small fan blowing lihghtly on the spot will remove that risk....

                      that's what i used when i had much stuff to solder.

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                        #12
                        Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                        each puff of fumes= one pack of cigarettes worth of tar. DO NOT BREATHE IT!

                        thats what the man who taught me to solder said.
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                        (Insert witty quote here)

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                          #13
                          Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                          Do not breathe it is certainly correct it's not good for you.

                          But the tar cigarettes analogy couldn't be anymore incorrect.

                          The worst rosin fumes can do is cause occupational asthma. This mostly only happens to factory workers who spend hours and hours every day breathing it in without not knowing the risks.

                          Just keep your head clear of the smoke or use a fume extractor with a carbon filter.
                          Last edited by Krankshaft; 01-08-2010, 07:46 PM.
                          Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.

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                            #14
                            Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                            i wanted to ask
                            "what tar?"
                            hehe....

                            there are some peculiar things in rosin, but i doubt tar is one of them...

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                              #15
                              Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                              I wonder if I would get a discount if I went to their factory..

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                                #16
                                Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                                I still can't figure out how I can get it at as low of a price that I do copper isn't cheap.
                                Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either.

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                                  #17
                                  Re: Good Price On Desoldering Braid

                                  i prefer a pump - you just need to know how to use one.

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