QUOTE (dwb @ 3 Feb 2009, 07:13)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>As it happens, my tool box contains fibre glass brushes (how do you avoid the shards?), some Carr's Green flux and some wet & dry from a car project years ago.
You can't really. One way is to do all the fibre glass burnishing under running water in the laundry sink. I however wear plastic food prep gloves that you can buy a box of several hundred for a few bob. Religiously put them on at the start of a session and this has the added bonus of preventing greazy finger prints being applied to the etches too.
QUOTE (dwb @ 3 Feb 2009, 07:13)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Here's the result. I'm not sure if you can see my "new" soldering but I used flux every time - honest. I think I just need some practice.
Yep that is all it takes is practice. And the beauty of soldering this together is you can undo it and redo it if you are not happy.