HOWTO guide: Soldering is easy!
@TacoChucks wrote: You are in luck then, they claim to be back. http://www.heathkit.com/ Follow the FAQ link (and copy/paste it into something so you can read it if need be). I took they survey they...
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@Chanfan wrote: Hmm, this comic seems to show me what I was doing wrong (soldered for the first time just this week, on an Adafruit project). I had read that one should heat up the wire until it will...
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@bzishi wrote: No, no, no! Argghh!!!!! These instructions have just oxidized your connections prior to applying the solder. And by failing to wet your soldering iron (tinning), you have oxidized your...
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@nixiebunny wrote: There is disagreement on the subject of what should be heated with what. You're right that the wire should melt the solder, but you have to put a thin coating of solder on the tip...
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@Chanfan wrote: Interesting. I was unable to get the wire (solid but small gauge copper speaker wire) hot enough to melt the solder. Also, while I was aware I should "tin the tip", anytime I tried to...
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@nixiebunny wrote: There's a big difference between the hundred dollar soldering iron that I use and the five dollar one that many beginners use. A good soldering tip is steel-clad, so that it won't...
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@bzishi wrote: Here is a guide on how to solder correctly. If you followed this guide exactly you would get almost perfect grades on a soldering test: Read full topic
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@noahdjango wrote: make sure you've got some Wonderbread handy ;^) Read full topic
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@Bloo wrote: Is this a repeat of the 2011 story ? If so, the mightyohm site, linked to from that story, contains the document in various formats, including a Kindle-friendly format - one panel per...
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@LemoUtan wrote: Imagining how many of the commenters are pronouncing solder as sodder, I feel so odd-school. Read full topic
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@westcarleton wrote: Wipe the iron tip on a damp sponge and dip the tip into some flux immediately prior to soldering. Just make sure it's a tin of resin flux and not the acid flux used by plumbers....
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@peregrinus_bis wrote: I picked up soldering a year and a half ago. I learned from a ten year old on YouTube. I watched some other people, and they had picked up bad habits. The youngster's method...
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@Dire wrote: As commented somewhere above - this vid seems to be for a skill called soddering - using a substance called sodder - Read full topic
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@thaumatechnicia wrote: Thanks bzishi, that's a very good video. I've been soldering, for my job, for about 35 years now, and pretty much all of what I've learned is covered in the video. I'd like to...
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@thaumatechnicia wrote: That site needs to use a smaller font on the FAQ page... Read full topic
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@bzishi wrote: I learned to pronounce it 'sodder'. A colonel and a lieutenant on an island told me to do so just after putting mayonnaise and Worcestershire sauce on their bologna sandwiches next to...
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@bkad wrote: My experience is that soldering is not even remotely easy, especially to self-learn. But maybe I am unusually clumsy or have bad tools. Read full topic
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@Gyrofrog wrote: This was probably my favorite job, though it didn't pay much. (The bonus, though, is that's how I met my wife.) I'd be very interested to hear whether there are still any paying...
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@curgoth wrote: All the folks I know who solder professional do so in two contexts - making jewellery, and hand-building satellites. Which is to say, I know two people who do both (jewellery...
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@Medievalist wrote: It could be the tools, but I suspect you just haven't had the right teacher yet. Once it "clicks" for you it'll be dead simple, even with lousy tools. @westcarleton: if you use a...
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@Medievalist wrote: Chanfan: while I was aware I should "tin the tip", anytime I tried to melt the solder onto the tip, it - in appearance at least - would just run right off and the only effect was...
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@technogeekagain wrote: Soldering does require moderately steady hands, but no more so than most other kinds of manual labor. It's easier, of course, if your first exposure isn't highly heat-sensitive...
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@bryan wrote: Chanfan: they only had lead-free solder at the store While leaded solder is a slight bit easier to work with, unless you have a lot of faith in your air handling setup I would strongly...
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