Tinning vero-board??

[greenacarina]

Hi all! I am embarking on my first foray of building a pedal with veroboard. How many of you tin your "strips" first? Any reason I should or shouldn't??
Thanks!!
Chris

[Dragonfly]

...no reason to...at least that ive ever found....

ive built "just a few" vero based pedals...   

AC

[choklitlove]

just in case you didn't catch that... "just a few" is probably a joke.

you didn't fool me, dragonfly!

[Gilles C]

If you always use a new stripboard, it will normally be easy to solder them. But if you use some 5 years old stripboard for example, you may have to clean the traces with some alcohol or with a scrubber or some fine sanding paper before soldering the components, because the copper could be oxidised a bit.

I never tinned them, but I had to clean some stripboards I had since a couple of years.

When I want a tinned stripboard, I buy them already tinned. That's for my final circuits. I use the normal untinned vero-board for my tests, because they are cheaper, but the tinned ones are of better quality also.

Gilles

[greenacarina]

I did catch the humor in "just a few". 
So far I'm doing OK with un-tinned strips, but at times the solder seems a little finicky and those strips are SO close together and I'm trying to avoid little solder bridges like crazy.
Thanks for the input!
Chris

[Ronsonic]

Scrub the traces nice and shiny and the Kester flux pen is pricey, but makes for oh-so-smooth-and-pretty solders.

Ron

[bancika]

I just clean board with finest sand paper I've got, wipe it with acetone and spray it with plastic spray. It keeps it from oxidation and doesn't make soldering harder