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02-29-2008, 01:12 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: West Omaha
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|  Cleaning up solder joints
Just wondering what everyone uses to clean up the solder joints after soldering them. The wide open ones are easy. I am wondering about the hard to get to ones where you really can't get a dremel or file into. If you look at my build in the wk section called rockstar you will see quite a few of them.
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02-29-2008, 01:33 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: between heaven and hell.
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small file will work. jewelers file perhaps. |
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02-29-2008, 01:53 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Minnesota
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I only use a wire wheel on mine... Try not to use too much solder and it cuts down on the cleaning.
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02-29-2008, 02:51 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nelson NewZealand Team RC4WD
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I find that if you use good flux and solder, it should flow flow evenly into the joint not requiring any cleanup. If I need to remove sodler from a tight join I use either a file, craft knife, drill bit or fret saw blade.
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02-29-2008, 03:10 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: West Omaha
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Alot of my joints are sloppy or have alot of flux residue on them. I am still new to brazing so it is not the best looking job in the world. I do have small files and every dremel attachment known to man, plus a bunch that are not for the dremel, but still fit. I was just trying to find out if there is the purfect thing to use or what.
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02-29-2008, 06:25 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kennewick, Washington
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Grit blasting works nice,and helps prep for painting.
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03-07-2008, 12:06 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ventura, Ca
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A kratex wheel (not sure if its kratex or cratex) on a dremel works awesome. Its like a rubber compound that has different grits and most are fine enough to not gouge or scar. You can get them in a disc or pencil tip shapes. It actually polishes things up very nice. It wont work well for removing ugly blobs of braze but does great at getting rid of the flux and smoothing.
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03-07-2008, 04:10 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NH
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I'm with dave anthis on this one. I have a small media blast cabinet from harbor freight,I just threw my chassis in there and blasted away. then hung it up and shot some paint on it
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03-07-2008, 06:10 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kennewick, Washington
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Rocksmith's right ( and it's Cratex) Cratex works excellent to remove any nasty braze drips or runs. Works very well for deburring materials that create hard burrs when cutting, such as Inconel,Titanium,17-4 S.S. Everyone should have some Cratex wheels and bullet shapes for there Dremel .
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