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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Need some simple (?) repair advice
From: "Dirk Wright" <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:51:18 EDT
>In a message dated 00-06-26 21:53:36 EDT, you write:
>
>> Then came the fun part.  I removed the springy metal negative 
contact
>>  from the battery compartment so as not to melt the plastic with the
>>  soldering iron, ground off the corrosion till I got bright, shiny 
metal,
>>  put on a little flux and tried to tin the contact.  Much to my 
surprise
>>  the tin/silver solder just rolls off that spring contact like water 
off
>>  a duck's back.
>
>I have some solder that I used to solder stainless steel.  The flux is 
>probably acid but "TinZinc" is sold as a universal solder combining 
aluminum, 
>copper, brass, bronze, stainless steel, pewter and cast iron.  It 
melts at 
>210C or 410F. It is made by Universal Solder of Carlsbad, Calif.
>

If it is really stainless steel, then there wouldn't be any corrosion 
in the first place! Something's funny about this picture.....

Be seeing you.


Dirk Wright

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