Hi All,

I'm fairly new to soldering and am using a borax cone with easy solder strip. To save ££ I decided not to get a borax dish and was crushing and mixing the borax myself. This was fine but thought I could prob save time and get a better paste consistency by getting a dish but I can't stand the dish, it really didn't grind down the cone like I expected and before I could even use the paste (if you could call it a paste) it had dried up. I just went back to my previous method. Neither ways really produced a paste more of a lumpy water which has been difficult to work with. What am I doing wrong or should I find a different flux? Any recommendations?

Thanks
Belinda