Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Solder for electronics used for plumbing. HELP!

My understanding is that plumbing solder just has an evil,corrosive but very effective acid flux, while electronic solder has a gentle, non-corrosive but much less effective rosin fluc. The rosin flux protects the molten solder from oxygen but not much else, while the acid flux gives you a decent chance of soldering grungy materials together.

If the joints look good (ie the solder flowed onto the metal) they should be OK. I don't think rosin core solder will do any harm, although the opposite (acid flux for electronics) tends to be really bad news.

Then again, I don't know squat about plumbing so...