About soldering

justin101

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I saw a post that the person didnt know how to solder two wires. I just wanted to give a few details about soldering.<br />first its super easy!<br /><br />Take wires or part you need to solder and clean them off or strip back the cover on the wires.<br />So now you have stripped back or cleaned the parts you need to solder.<br /><br />Plug in your soldering iron and allow it to heat up.<br /><br /><br />For wires hold the stripped ends face to face and -----> <------- then over lap them.<br /><br />--------><br /><--------<br /><br />like so. Now give em a good twist. Take the parts or wire you want to solder and apply a small amount of flux. about a match head<br /><br />Grab the soldering iron and solder.<br />Unroll about 3 inches of solder. Take the iron and touch the tip to the end of the solder. If it melts then its ready to use....<br /><br />NOW take the iron tip and place under the solder a small drop of solder will melt off onto your iron. Take the drop to your wires and run it back and forth. Do you see how the solder will melt the flux and only sticks to the coper that has flux on it?. I would saw on a wire splice to use 3 drops of solder. I would use heat shrink to cover the splice<br /><br />Now before I get blasted by anyone. No this is not the Pro way to solder, this is the way for someone who has never done this to make a good repair.<br /><br /><br />remember, its takes about 10 mins for the iron to heat up, solder will only stick to metal with flux on it BUT solder will stick to skin..LOLOL...
 

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Re: About soldering

Electrics topic.
 
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