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Default How do they put the flux in solder?

On Monday, 18 March 2019 20:08:08 UTC, Dave Platt wrote:
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Phil Hobbs wrote:

AFAIK the two usual methods for that sort of job are co-extrusion (as in
Blackpool Rock candy sticks, where the writing went all the way through
from one end to the other) and drawing down a preform through a
succession of wire dies. For solder, drawing down would be my guess.


I believe your guess is correct. I saw a marketing blurb by Ersin
Multicore, talking about their process, and they specifically
mentioned the use of a progressively-smaller series of dies.

They said that some "fake" multi-core solder (by their competitors)
uses a single nozzle with five openings to extrude the flux. Although


there's more than 1 way to interpret that.

they didn't say so specifically, this implies to me that their own
process uses five separate nozzles as part of the initial extrusion
process.


surely it doesn't imply that. Any why and in what sense would another mfrs 5 core solder be 'fake'?


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