Cardas Soldering Wire Quad Eutectic Silver Solder with rosin flux 1/4 lbs (113g) roll

I grew up in the 50s and 60s and took Electronics Shop in High School and did projects before that so Ive spent countless hours with a soldering gun or iron in my hands. Im used to old school solder and had some worries that newer stuff would be difficult. Its not. This solder performs extremely well. Some of that is possibly due to a decent soldering station, but even on a cheap throwaway gun it handles just fine.

I wish it was scented with cinnamon or candy apple. It would smell so good.

I wanted to try an actual silver solder but have always heard they were difficult to work with. Not so for this one, although I am using an X-Tronic work station, not a pen type iron, so at 75 watts it has headroom. I cant tell the difference between this and the Wonder Signature I normally use.

I have probably soldered close to 1,000,000 electronic circuits and tens of thousands of custom fabricated hobby craft joints in my life. The reliable old 60-40 solder served me well on electronic circuits and then the stronger silver-content solder worked well for craft work. But the silver solder I used for craft work was very high heat and if I tried using it on electronic circuits it more often than not destroyed the delicate copper traces on expensive circuit boards. The Cardas product is a quality silver-based solder that melts at far more reasonable - although still quite high - temperature and provides stronger and IMHO better sounding connection than 60-40 solder does. Simply re-sweating any existing soldered electronic joint may yield audible improvements providing that the components being soldered can tolerate this higher heat [i.e., used with caution on temperature-sensitive and surface-mount devices]. Will this ALWAYS make things sound better? Probably not. But heres the way I look at it. Eliminating problems in the long audio chain between the signal source and your ears is a tedious process. If you have a particular piece of gear already in pieces on your bench, why not eliminate a potentially weak-ink in the audio chain by using better solder? The cost is small and the return could be large. If you always do what youve done, you will always get what you got. If you want something different, then you must try something new. Give this a try; Im pretty sure that it will surprise you.

Expensive and really worth it!

Great solder for high quality audio electronics. The solder flowed very well and I didnt seem to have any cold joint issues with it. I actually preferred it to the Kester 60/40 I was using prior to it.

As a ten year user of this brand I am very satisfied.

I bought this simply because I had ran out of the solder I was using, and based on the recommendation of a video I had watched on youtube which was a tutorial for soldering techniques. They recommended silver solder with a rosin flux, and this just so happend to be the best price to quantity ratio I found on amazon. I had to fix some bad joints on my guitar, a stratocaster, and got the chance to try this solder out. As many have said, it heats at a lower temperature than lower-grade solder, as well as flows much, much better. If I can help it Ill be purchasing this solder again in the future for my guitar related needs.

Melts like butter. Hardens quick. I dont see any flux residue. This stuff is awesome, and its made my job a lot easier!

A friend turned me on to Cardas solder when I began building my own microphone preamps for my recording console. The solder that you use is part of the signal chain and an important factor in these types of builds so I wanted top notch solder and I got it. It came very quickly and after my first use i was really impressed! You cant go wrong with Cardas. Its the best in my opinion. Money well spent!