John Warren Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 is the only water you should use to saturate your solder tool sponges with. Don't use tap water to wipe your soldering tool tips clean, the Chlorine, Fluorine and salts will corrode the plating on the tip and shorten tip life by half. It's literally free at our supermarket (0.99/gallon) with 3 year shelf life. To be called distilled, the total solids content can't exceed 10ppm which is pretty spectacular given your paying about a buck for a gallon. Don't use Di-ionized water either, it will attack the tip. 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 and you can drink it... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 3 hours ago, John Warren said: It's literally free 3 hours ago, John Warren said: paying about a buck for a gallon 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDJohnson Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 That’s a good “tip”. Thank you for sharing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 $1.00 per gallon is not exactly "literally free". But thank you anyway. Have been doing this for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Warren Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 3 hours ago, Schu said: and you can drink it... New Mom's use it in baby formula too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinmi Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 I use it in my ultrasonic lp cleaner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebes Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 That's a great tip. Never knew water could damage the tip but I'll be buying a jug really soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 I use water from my RO filter. Works great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 On 3/13/2021 at 11:27 AM, John Warren said: ...with 3 year shelf life. I wonder if you can get 5 years if you store it in the freezer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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