mrnicks

Is something like this good? http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/835.html You say you sparingly and that's fine and dandy but I think you have to use as much as it takes to make the wire strands wick the solder. With no flux or too little it just balls up around the wire and you can just flick it off. So I think you're at the mercy of using as much as you need to get the job done. Not to be nit picky, but I think you're just saying use as much as you need and no more.

Can flux be "cored"? Or are you trying to say rosin cored solder? For soldering I use rosin cored solder. I'm looking for the least noxious flux to use with my solder pot. Something I can dip the wires in before dipping in the pot.

Alright, I think I have finally found the right thread to post a question I have about solder pots and fluxes. I build industrial machinery and have been tinning wires by using my trusty weller wp25 for a long time always using rosin core solder. It has always worked great but I went and bought a pot for speed. And the flux I'm using is some acid based stuff I just had lying around. This flux I stinks to the high heavens and I'm pretty sure it's slowly killing everyone in the shop. I do have a fume extractor with about 4 carbon filters on it and it's not enough. Point of the story is can someone steer me in the right direction of a flux that's for this job and is not so noxious? The solder I'm using is 60/40 (http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/72-6309).