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Solder Lead Free - 15-gram Tube

This is your basic tube of unleaded (Pb-free) solder with a 60/40 no clean, water soluble resin core. 0.031" gauge and 15 grams.

Mix: 96.5% tin / 3.0% silver / 0.5% copper

Solder Lead Free - 15-gram Tube Product Help and Resources

Flashlight Kit

October 11, 2018
This is an assembly guide for the SparkFun Flashlight Kit, a basic learn to solder kit.
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Skill Level: Noob - Some basic soldering is required, but it is limited to a just a few pins, basic through-hole soldering, and couple (if any) polarized components. A basic soldering iron is all you should need.
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Customer Comments

  • urbanatwork / about 6 years ago / 3

    Is there a suggested temp for this solder?

    • Member #910010 / about 2 years ago / 1

      I second this request. From my understanding lead-free solder often has a higher melting temperature than leaded, and different soldering irons (or settings on one) can certainly have different temperatures. It would be good to have the melting point along with any recommended temperature clearly noted somewhere.

  • Member #186479 / about 7 years ago / 3

    I’m not sure about the lead-free part. I just did a lead test on a tube I just ordered. I really hope my order was incorrectly picked, because the lead-test I did came out positive (containing lead). I really hope I accidentally received TOL-09162 (the leaded version).

  • Easy_E / about 9 years ago / 3

    Doesn’t “60/40” generally refer to the tin/lead content of the solder? In that case, there’s nothing 60/40 about lead-free solder.

    • JLC / about 9 years ago / 2

      “with a 60/40 no clean, water soluble resin core"
      That explains it.

  • Member #134665 / about 6 years ago / 1

    I have several tubes of solder purchased from Sparkfun. How can identify what type of solder it is?

  • MostThingsWeb / about 6 years ago / 1

    “This is you basic” should be “This is your basic”

  • JLC / about 9 years ago / 1

    I tested against the lead free I had at home and I was not impressed. Why? Because this one took much longer time to melt.

Customer Reviews

4 out of 5

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3 of 3 found this helpful:

It's solder.

by verified purchaser

Heat it. It melts. Things connect. Magic happens.

1 of 1 found this helpful:

Good !

by verified purchaser

Nice to solder , easy to pull packaging…

I really wanted to make a review for this product !

The thing is, it’s nearly impossible to differentiate the lead free and the leaded when you have both in your pocket, maybe you could ad a vinyl sticker on it ?