Tricks Tips Soldering

Most of these steps can be done right after youre done with your soldering job and they dont take a lot of time.

Tricks tips soldering. Grab the solder in your non-dominant hand and give it about an inch and a half. Generally the first step in soldering is to TIN the parts that you will be using. If you have one of these you should get into the habit of wiping the tip on the pad each time you apply solder with it.

The molten metal should cover all the elements of the joint. The solder wont want to stick to the pick at all. If you dont have a tinning compound low-temperature solder is good for this.

Do not keep the soldering iron tip more than 3 seconds on the soldering joint when soldering CMOS components. Place the soldering wire near the soldering iron and move it over the joint in a small circle until it reaches back to the soldering iron. The heating of the solder tips causes the tips form oxides and the ability for the soldering iron tip to transfer heat is drastically reduced when it gets covered in oxides and burnt flux residues.

Melt just enough solder to make the joint and then pull the iron away. In order to empty the solder sucker press down on the plunger. Then wipe it off on a wet sponge removing everything except a thin layer of solder.

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Use the correct type of vise or third hand. Apply very little flux in the solder joints and make the soldering. If there isnt too much solder there the pick will break the surface tension holding the two together and they will pop back to being separate.