How To Get Better At Soldering

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How to get better at soldering. You can wash your hands with a gritty soap like Boraxo. This solder is going to melt against the tip and wire so its going to speed up the heat transfer between the tip and the wire. From soldering motors in and out of a car changing battery connectors to ones that are more efficient replacing brushes on motors before brushless took over even building six cell battery packs.

If you solder something and find the join is not the best say its only soldered on one side use heat to bring the solder over to where its needed you might need to add a bit more solder. Before you can start soldering you need to prep your soldering iron by tinning the tip with solder. This process helps to improve the heat transfer from the iron to the object to be soldered.

If you are soldering wire to something tin the wire and the lug you are soldering it to. Oxidation grease and yes dirt. It is better to use a plastic sheet on the floor so that the foot will rest on the insulated sheet while soldering.

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Touch some solder on it and it should melt almost instantly. Before you can start soldering you need to prepare your soldering iron by tinning the tip with the solder. Tinning will also help to protect the tip and reduce wear.

If you would like to make a set of helping hands of your own there are already a number of good Instructables. Get solder that is 60 tin and 40 lead. -Know how to utilize heat powerGnd planes -Learn to use hot air gun and solder paste.