Karen Tellefsen said:

>Do not put old solder paste in your solder pot.
>You will see dross like you've never seen before.
>You will have a mess and a half.  Solder paste contains
>a lot of flux.  The flux will char and stink.
>
>Send the paste back the manufacturer for recycling.

Unfortunately, our local Alpha rep suggested that we try disposing of old
paste in the solder wave.

I can tell you, she is exactly right; it will smoke and generally cause
problems, DON'T do it! Your wave solder operator will laugh at you behind
your back and tell everyone this brilliant idea was another stupid waste of
time proposed by those overpaid engineers.

We scrape ours into the dross can and sell it to a recycler.


regards,


Jerry Cupples
Interphase Corporation
Dallas, TX USA
http://www.iphase.com


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