Re: Soldering crusty wires

Hear hear!!! Sometimes the corrosion is just at the end that was close to
the crusty part that then creep up the wire. I can tell you right now that
I would want a monitor with new wires over one with potentially troublesome
ones. FWIW.

c-starr

----- Original Message -----
From: "someotherguy" <someotherguy@mediaone.net>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Soldering crusty wires

> I have to agree with the "you might want to replace it" school of thought.
If
> it's that crusty, certainly it's adding increased resistance to the
overall
> scheme of things, and that just ain't good! : )
>
> Richard
>
> solarfox@texas.net wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 00:46:56 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> > >Working on repairing a choped wiring harness. Striped off the
insulation
> > >on a couple of the wires and they are brown with oxidation. No way in
hell
> > >I can get the solder to do anything other than roll off and land on my
leg
> > >(possibly burning through my pants on the way :)
> > >
> > >Anyone have a trick to clean this stuff off well enough to solder?
> >
> > I haven't tried this trick myself (yet), but I've been told that
a
> > tarnish remover like "Twinkle" or "Tarn-X For Copper" can give
surprisingly
> > good results...
> >
> > ...although if the wire is that bad off, you might want to
consider
> > replacing it entirely.
> >
>
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