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From: pekak@nokia.se (Pekka Akselin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: tin plating aluminum?
Message-ID: <1990Jan10.174756.5198@nokia.se>
Date: 10 Jan 90 17:47:56 GMT
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Organization: Nokia Data Systems AB, Linkoping Sweden
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john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:

>Is there any practical way of tin plating aluminum (i.e. Miniboxes) so that
>it may be soldered?  In particular, I just got some Datak TINNIT (a solution

I read in a Great Brittain electronics magazine called 'Elektor' that
you can coat the aluminum with corn or olive oil and then scrape it
free from the oxide layer. The oil protects the bare aluminum from the
oxygen so that it won't oxide again. Now when you have bare aluminum
just solder it!

Sorry for my bad english.

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Pekka Akselin               Nokia Data Systems AB            Linkoping, Sweden
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