For all electrical soldering I use rosin core solder. The rosin
is the flux.

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"Ignoramus30421" wrote in
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On 2011-04-08, wrote:
On Apr 6, 9:37?pm, Ignoramus21203 ignoramus21...@NOSPAM.
I have two good news on this front.

First is that I really did fix the plasma TV. The problem was
two
bulged caps in the power supply, which I replaced.
I've used a Pace as well, but pasty solder that doesn't stick
sounds
like the lead-free stuff to me. Had a miserable time trying to
pull
decayed through-hole caps on a motherboard with that stuff on
it.
Wouldn't wick and stuck like glue. Wouldn't suck out, either.
Ended
up doing the cap wiggle maneuver, heat one leg, push the top
over to
pull the lead as far as it would go, do the other side the
same,
repeat until extracted.

This is what I did too, wiggled the caps.

Then I used an awl to make holes, together with a soldering
iron. Melt, push awl, etc.

Then drill the holes out with a small bit.
Had to watch the heat so the plating didn't come along with the
leads. The replacements got a dose of the good old stuff, some
Sav-
Bit Ersin I keep around for such occasions. I tried the
dilution with
regular solder bit, the original stuff didn't mix at all.

I think that my other problem is a 10+ year old paste flux.
Could it be?

i