A while ago I bought a Kester flux pen from Sparkfun electronics. Turned out I didn't read the datasheet properly and it's actually Organic ACID flux. Wondered why when I didn't clean it, bad things happened...
Was tipped-off by something someone said on here, actually.
Since I still wanted a liquid flux, I looked online and found that Kester also do #186 which is a liquid but rosin based flux - no acid - sounds much better!
I looked on Sparkfun but they didn't sell it, then I looked on eBay and bought some there.
I got it today and I think it's fake. I don't care so much, because I have bought some cheap Chinese paste flux and it works just fine, so if this works too, so what?
But then I got thinking, what if this is also some kind of acid flux, even though they claim it's Rosin-based?
I don't want to use it in that case, because I'd be afraid to get problems again.
Does anyone know if there is there some way I could test the flux and find out what type it really is?
Was tipped-off by something someone said on here, actually.
Since I still wanted a liquid flux, I looked online and found that Kester also do #186 which is a liquid but rosin based flux - no acid - sounds much better!
I looked on Sparkfun but they didn't sell it, then I looked on eBay and bought some there.
I got it today and I think it's fake. I don't care so much, because I have bought some cheap Chinese paste flux and it works just fine, so if this works too, so what?
But then I got thinking, what if this is also some kind of acid flux, even though they claim it's Rosin-based?
I don't want to use it in that case, because I'd be afraid to get problems again.
Does anyone know if there is there some way I could test the flux and find out what type it really is?
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