best way to hold vmods in place?

[nn_step]

Flux is used so solder sticks to things better, it's a mild acid which cleans the surface you're soldering, so when hot solder touches some flux on a copper wire, the solder will spread around like water. Pure solder usually form a big blob rather than an even coating.

If I'm not mistaken, rosin core "high-tech" solder is self fluxed, or most electronic solders.

Correct modern electrical solder has a resin core or resin impregnated...

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Flux is used so solder sticks to things better, it's a mild acid which cleans the surface you're soldering, so when hot solder touches some flux on a copper wire, the solder will spread around like water. Pure solder usually form a big blob rather than an even coating.

If I'm not mistaken, rosin core "high-tech" solder is self fluxed, or most electronic solders.

hmm. well thats the stuff i used, and have for all my solder, learn something every day.

[afireinside]

yes I'm using rosin core solder

[Thrilla]

Try using steel wool to sand the leads a little, give it a texture, then heat up the liquid solder a little longer.
I learned this in art metal:
heat up both pieces evenly, because solder sticks to whatever that's the hottest.

Gah if I didn't break my soldering iron for that heating thingy I'd take pics...

Btw idk if this will help, for jewllery we use silver solder with a white powder-liked flux, for non-lead soft solder we used a gel-liked amber flux, I use that amber flux for electronics sometimes, but now I used rosin core.

[Nosfer@tu]

Try using steel wool to sand the leads a little, give it a texture, then heat up the liquid solder a little longer.
I learned this in art metal:
heat up both pieces evenly, because solder sticks to whatever that's the hottest.

Gah if I didn't break my soldering iron for that heating thingy I'd take pics...

Btw idk if this will help, for jewllery we use silver solder with a white powder-liked flux, for non-lead soft solder we used a gel-liked amber flux, I use that amber flux for electronics sometimes, but now I used rosin core.

Dont use steel wool on your soldering leads. Then you will remove the protective cover that is on it and that will give you problems when trying to geet the solder to stick, that is what I was told.

I know that if you need your soldering good and strong you need to heat it up alot.

That is just not posible on a grafic card And w e are not going to space so it dosent matter that much. But when you solder somwhere on you card, like you did on the 7800.
use som alcohole to cleane the soldering point, and then you can use a glass pen. It is just like a normal pen, but it has long strips of glass in it.

When doing that to the solder point there is more to stick to.
Just like when you paint

[[cTx]Philosophy]

Id also like to try this, but my soldering skills ar3e about as good as my welding skills (which suck also) so Id just try the bios editors and if they dot work screw it..

[sluggo]

I used to work at a repair facility for a large computer manufacturer. All of the folks used a hot melt called "beeswax". Just take the side of your soldering tip, press it against the end of the wax, and you have a dot of hot melt adhesive ready to place on a wire. Works great.

PS Flux allows solder to spread out because it lower's the solder's surface tension, not because of any cleaning action. You might be thinking of acid-core solder, which is used to solder materials with surface corrosion present.