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Uncle Krunkus
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 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:41 am Post subject:
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Hi everybody,
For anyone out there who does work with stripboard (I know it's a dying art, but this is handy for any link)
You can make really good links using the wire which holds toys into their cardboard boxes. Next Christmas, you could easily collect all you'll ever need. The plastic on them is a great insulator, and the wire is quite soft. Some sort of alloy I think, but the amazing thing is that it solders really well!
The Krunkus
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Thanks Uncle K! My mother always said us kids were more interested in the packaging than the toys. Stripboard a dying art?  No way! I can't see myself building any other way.  |
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I have a pile of stripboard chunks on my workbench, so it's not dying out any time soon
I know the kind of wire ties you mean, they are useful but they differ between manufacturers. Also I've got so much wire I'd only use them in a wire emergency.
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I can imagine these having a steel core, since that's low cost compared to copper. Could also be aluminium, although I don't think that solders well.
In both cases, steel and aluminium, you run the risk of the wire breaking earlier than with copper. |
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That's very true. 
I should stop being a tight arse and just get some nice tinned copper.
Top of the shopping list. 
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| LFLab wrote: | | I can imagine these having a steel core, since that's low cost compared to copper. Could also be aluminium, although I don't think that solders well. |
I allways thought aluminium soldered very well because of its low melting temperature, it's more brittle the copper though.
I've noted that those wire toy-ties are almost allways magnetic.
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You can't actually solder aluminium at all. In fact, you can only weld it with a halogen welder, as the surfaces re-oxides in nanoseconds.
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| Uncle Krunkus wrote: | | You can't actually solder aluminium at all. In fact, you can only weld it with a halogen welder, as the surfaces re-oxides in nanoseconds. |
the trick to soldering aluminum is to sand it with wet/dry sandpaper coated in thick oil like motor oil or medium oil like shop oil, then solder with abundant flux applied in addition to the rosin core solder. The oil prevents oxidation until the moment of soldering, then it burns off and makes a nasty stinky mess, but yep you got your solder joint.
Les
p.s. i tried it once a long time ago and it worked if i recall correctly, however all my years of alcoholism are blurring my memory at this moment so take that with a grain of salt.
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And I close this thread with the sad news that this "tip o' the day" is bogus!
Uncle Krunkus doesn't know what the hell he's talking about!!
Shenanigans!
SHENANIGANS! I tell you!
"I'm as mad as hell,.. and I aint gonna take it no more!!!"
(I've found at least 2 (two) instances where I thought the solder joint was good, but these links just cracked off.)
Do not believe everything Uncle Krunkus says!
He is a messenger of the DEVIL!!!!!!
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This thread be not closed! [wookie sound]
Also: I disagree, plasic bag ties are much the same thing and the rolls of bags seem to come with more ties than one can use. Kitchen drawers begin to overflow with them before long, to the wire offcuts box with you, thou wirey plague!
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| Uncle Krunkus wrote: | | He is a messenger of the DEVIL!!!!!! |
I don't believe that, show me a picture with a recent newspaper
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