Thoughts on Conductive Epoxy?

[Blaine]

Anyone have experience using conductive epoxy/gels?

I've been giving it a lot of thought for very fine work (such as soldering wires to a 15-pin DSUB) or for surface mounting.

Here's some samples:

http://www.cir.com/parts/circbord/circbord.htm

The C-A gel interests me most, I think. I'm not sure what it's viscosity is like, but if it's like regular C-A glue, it should flow very nicely into small areas with the help of a sewing needle.

The 2-part Epoxy will surely be stronger, but it also might be thicker.

I'm sure the real solution would be to just become better at soldering - but, I do practice and I do tend to ruin things I work on...so, yeah, it's frustrating.

So, since this is the most knowledgable tech site on the web, figured I'd let you guys give some input.

[viletim!]

I've used similar products in the past for repairing things which cannot be soldered. I don't think they'd be a very good alternative to soldering fine stuff generaly - expensive, low mechanical strength, wait for drying, etc.

Practice soldering some more . For fine stuff use fine solder, not a fine soldering iron tip.  

[Blaine]

Yeah... I kinda figured.

It's pretty much a given -

If it sounds like a great idea, but I never hear of anyone using it, it's probably not as great as it sounds.

[Guest_HempHacker]

Just thought I'd point out that the quick bond gel doesn't specifically say that it's conductive...