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Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meetings at MIT starting this September!



On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:54:45AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2004, at 2:04 AM, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> >>I have been soldering a copper HDD water cooler this way - put an iron
> >>plate over gas stove, heated the biggest part up, and then it was just
> >>play with liquid solder and rosin (I bought a 1kg bag in a drugstore).
> >
> >Your drug stores sell rosin?  Ours sells Doritos, but I don't think 
> >that
> >counts.  :)
> 
>   Umm, yeah.  For some reason that gave me the mental image of trying 
> to use sun tan lotion as flux. ;)

I sometimes use citric acid (in solid crystalline form) as a flux
and citric acid is being sold in drugstores too :)

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