But there is flux in the solder Tron joystick

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So I am working on a Tron hacked joystick. Sometime in the Life of this Tron Control panel, some one decided to replace parts of this with a threaded rod. After drilling a few nuts to created spacers, The joystick now works and functions better. I told the owner that It was just a temporary fix until another Tron joystick can be found to replace it.

The bottom of the joystick uses leaf switches. A few things about soldering to leaf switches. Because of their construction, The leaf spring switch act like a heat sink. It will suck the heat out of a small tip soldering iron thus making a poor soldering joint. I found two wires that broke loose because of a cold solder joint.

So after sanding the ends of the leaf spring switch, I took a some flux and putting on the end and used a nice big soldering iron. Everything flowed as it should and a proper connection has been made.

While your typical small soldering iron works great on 95% on most electronic parts. Soldering to larger metal items some time needs a bigger soldering iron and extra flux.
 
Ha! I heard that! I'm sure that Tron, (whomever it belongs to), will be good as new in no time! ;)

Gotta' run back lunchtime and clean up that damn place!

Juan
 
yepper, That is why I keep the old Weller gun type soldering iron around. Not often but, sometimes it really comes in handy and if that is not big enough then I use a plumbers torch. :)
 
The flux in the solder should have been more than enough. In all my years of soldering I have never once applied flux to anything but surface mount components.
 
If the Leaf switch was already tinned, regular solder and flux would have worked. Since the solder and wire popped off the leaf switch, Sanding and fluxing and a bigger soldering iron was the best solution.
 
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