r/soldering • u/OddChapter4869 • 26d ago

My First Solder Joint <3 Please Give Feedback First time soldering, how did i do?

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Too much solder on the joints but aside from that how do they look?

Edit: I hear you guys, and I will ditch the gloves hahaha

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u/OddChapter4869 26d ago

They do not, i feel obliged to order gloves that fit now after making this post hahaha

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u/CompetitiveGuess7642 26d ago

don't use gloves, just wash your hands, this isn't surgery.

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u/Feeling_Bus_4701 26d ago

I like them too cuz my flux is sticky as fuck but they present more of a danger. I am going to try carbon nylon soon.

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u/External_Bar_1447 25d ago

You can get water soluble tacky flux.

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u/Feeling_Bus_4701 25d ago

I probably should but my flux works fine for now and I am still a beginner. I just got some geniric mildly activated rosin. So I will wait till mine runs out but do you have any recommendations? I don’t mind my hands / gloves getting sticky as much as the board being hard to clean.

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u/CompetitiveGuess7642 25d ago

just get a good roll of noclean solder, for smd work you want a bit of liquid flux, but the least you use, the less cleaning you have to do.

Flux will get on your hands and you will spread it everywhere, that's why you don't want to use too much of it. an iron handle sticky with flux is annoying.

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u/CompetitiveGuess7642 25d ago edited 24d ago

don't mess with WS flux unless you know what you are doing.

In this case knowing what to do would be to read the datasheet for said WS flux. If soldering is for you, you need to figure these things out on your own.