Flux

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In article ,
Ted Frater wrote:
Kendall Davies wrote:
Does anyone have experience of Auflux, Borax, Bakers Fluid, Easyflo Flux
Powder, and/or Fluxite?
Well youve lumped together fluxes suitable for the base solders of tin
andlead right up to silver or gold hall marking brazing alloy fluxes.
youll need to very much more specific as to what you want to achieve

True enough. But we can say something about many of them. Fluxes are I
think best thought of as being aligned to an optimum temperature range,
not necessarily to specific metals.

So the good old borax cone beloved of many has its optimum operating
temperature range (and operating time at that temp), and another such as
easiflo operates at a similar or broader temperature range more
agressively and for a longer operating time.

Brian