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totally agree.

I use kester 66/44 eutetic tin-lead solder on anything I care about.

It's said that light-dark auto helmets make someone a welder nearly overnight; I think that same way about eutetic solder and soldering, it makes the job so much easier that the quality of the work skyrockets.



Any idea why, if the parts don't add to 100, they don't reduce the fraction in the solder name from 66/44 to 3/2? Un-reduced portions are handy if they're percentages, but if they're not going to be percentages, why not reduce the fraction?


Might be a typo? Usually you have 60/40 and 63/37.


because you're comparing it to 63/37. it's much easier to grok the comparison when you use the same "units".

in racing, they say to drive 10/10ths. not 1's. for the same reason.


If they don't add up to 100, and neither of the numbers matches the default, they're not the same units.




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