- Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:04 pm
#31219
Normal solder used for electrics is typicaly 60% tin, 40% lead.
Tinman's solder seems to be 62% tin 38% lead.
I'm no metallurgist but I would have thought the more tin in the mix the better, so the Tinman's just has an advantage.
Plumbers solder is 32% tin 68% lead (though lots of people use lead-free these days)so this should perhaps be avoided.
Silver solders are stronger but have a much higher melting point which quite easily spoil the temper of the wire. I've got cables soldered with ordinary electrics solder which have been in use for years.
I recently had a nipple pull out of a clutch cable (not one I'd made) which hadn't been splayed at all but managed to survive a couple of hundred miles in my hands. Don't know how much use it had had before.
Alan, the problem with the solderless, clamp on type is that the clamping screw easily damages the strands of wire and this can lead to failure
Tinman's solder seems to be 62% tin 38% lead.
I'm no metallurgist but I would have thought the more tin in the mix the better, so the Tinman's just has an advantage.
Plumbers solder is 32% tin 68% lead (though lots of people use lead-free these days)so this should perhaps be avoided.
Silver solders are stronger but have a much higher melting point which quite easily spoil the temper of the wire. I've got cables soldered with ordinary electrics solder which have been in use for years.
I recently had a nipple pull out of a clutch cable (not one I'd made) which hadn't been splayed at all but managed to survive a couple of hundred miles in my hands. Don't know how much use it had had before.
Alan, the problem with the solderless, clamp on type is that the clamping screw easily damages the strands of wire and this can lead to failure
Classic C5 Euro 4 at the moment.
Also CBf250.
Also CBf250.
