How To Solder Wires At Home

It is as easy as 1-2-3.

How to solder wires at home. A cold solder joint happens when the hot solder hits a cold wire hardening it. Begin by removing the insulation from the ends of both wires you are soldering together. Too much or too little flux will cause problems with the solder attaching to the parts.

To make your own solder you would need a foundry to melt the copper and tin and specialized extruder to create the wire evenly and WITH a rosin core and a way to coat the solder evenly in flux a dip bucket just outside the extruder would probably do. Remove the soldering iron and allow the soldered connection to cool and harden for a few seconds. Then solder the wire properly.

Cover the connection with heat shrink. Tenure your wires before you connect them. Make sure your soldering iron is fully heated and touch the tip to the end of one of the wires.

The best way to splice wires is to wrap them together tightly using multiple twists to ensure maximum contact between the two wire sections. Then twist the filaments of each wire tightly to make them orderly. Keep the iron in place and touch the solder to the wire until its fully coated.

And allow the solder to melt. When soldering there are a few tips and tricks to get the best connection possible. Doing it correctly will also ensure that you can use your battery when you need to.

Then add some solder until the wire is soaked with solder. Hold it on the wire for 3-4 seconds. The one place I find solder not allowed on ground wires on heavy duty pin and sleeve connectors is the ground pin the ungrounded conductors are soldered and the ground is clamped funny because this is also the failure point in most of these cords but twisted and soldered connections are legal but normally only seen in knob and tube wiring.