Soldering vs Footprint symbol

• What is soldering?
Is a process in which two or more items
are joined together by melting and putting
a filler metal (solder) into the joint, the filler
metal having a lower melting point than
the adjoining metal.
 Type of Soldering
• There are mainly two type of soldering :
• Soft Soldering is a method of joining metals with a
Eutectic Tin/Lead Alloy. The heat source is often an
Electric Soldering Iron but copper ‘irons’ heated with a
gas torch may be needed for larger work.
• Soft Soldering with an Electric Soldering Iron is
commonly the method used to
fuse Electronics components on to circuit boards - multi-
core solder wire which incorporates a Passive Flux is
used (to avoid corrosion of the copper tracks
afterwards). This method can be used also for other
circumstances where only small sections of materials are
to be joined
• Hard Soldering is taken to include those metal joining techniques in
which a filler rod is used as the joining medium, heat is provided by
a gas torch and there is no melting of the parent metal. In this
context, it includes Silver Soldering and Brazing but not Welding.
• Type of Soldering Processes