What do you guys do with it?
Currently I've got all of my used solder that got sucked up from the desolder pump melted into a ball... It's about an inch in diameter now, maybe more. Since I dont desolder that much, and growth diameter would be the square or third root of how much solder I put on it, its growth is now very slow unlike when it was first conceived.
Basically when I clean out all the solder from the solder chamber I melt it together with the ball and round it off. Why I do this? I don't know...
Unfortunately this ball is probably a mixture of lead and leadfree solder, it's hard to tell what the mix percentage is. But it definitely has lead in it, hence I don't toss it in the trash.
I wish that someday I could just draw it back into wire and reuse it for fill solder if needed, as long as no more flux is needed.
Currently I've got all of my used solder that got sucked up from the desolder pump melted into a ball... It's about an inch in diameter now, maybe more. Since I dont desolder that much, and growth diameter would be the square or third root of how much solder I put on it, its growth is now very slow unlike when it was first conceived.
Basically when I clean out all the solder from the solder chamber I melt it together with the ball and round it off. Why I do this? I don't know...
Unfortunately this ball is probably a mixture of lead and leadfree solder, it's hard to tell what the mix percentage is. But it definitely has lead in it, hence I don't toss it in the trash.
I wish that someday I could just draw it back into wire and reuse it for fill solder if needed, as long as no more flux is needed.
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