Soldering to a PC board can be tricky: Too much heat can make the copper trace lift right off the board substrate. Use a soldering pencil rated at 15-25 watts, no more. (Watch the video; story ...

The basic metallurgy of solder. How to make a solder joint. How to repair a circuit board. The vintageTEK museum is a geek’s paradise to tour if visiting the Portland, Oregon area. The museum has ...

How creative are you when you make your circuit boards? Do you hunt around for different materials to use for the board? As long as it’s an insulator and can handle the heat of a soldering iron, then ...

For decades, solder has been the glue that holds electrical components to the circuit boards installed in computers and other electronic devices. Sunnyvale’s Verdant Electronics hopes to change that, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The formation of copper-tin intermetallic compounds of the Cu₆Sn₅ and the Cu₃Sn type at the interface between copper and solder on printed ...