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Old 16th October 2006   #7
Jim Williams
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: beautiful Carlsbad, CA
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Originally Posted by mus1k_freak View Post
I've read alot of people using 4% silver solder to make there own cords with and what not, it costs like 10x the price of regualr solder and the guy at the electronics store says it really makes no difference just an engineers pipe dream, any body swear by it, or doesnt it really make a difference?
Maybe there's a reason this guy is working in an electronics store rather than doing anything in the audio industry.

WBT is very good, I use it for surface mount reflow because it melts so well. Yes, it sounds better, the newer RoHS solders are silver, copper and tin, try to make that stuff flow!

Jim Williams
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