How To Get Better At Soldering
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How to get better at soldering. Press the blob of solder into the metal to be soldered. Look for this at your local hardware store. 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. This process helps to improve the heat transfer from the iron to the object to be soldered. This process will help improve the heat transfer from the iron to the item youre soldering.
Before you can start soldering you need to prep your soldering iron by tinning the tip with solder. You can wash your hands with a gritty soap like Boraxo. Tinning will also help to protect the tip and reduce wear.
Strategies for Better Results. -Know how to utilize heat powerGnd planes -Learn to use hot air gun and solder paste. -Cant get solder out of a thru hole add fresh solder.
Touch some solder on it and it should melt almost instantly. Initially the solder wont be too keen but when the metal reaches the right temperature the solder will suddenly be attracted to it and youll see it move slightly. So place the tip of the soldering gun underneath the wire and feed just a little bit of solder in between the tip and the wire.
We need to heat up the copper wire using our soldering gun. -Solder flows better when tip has fresh solder on it. Using a wire cutter snip each lead just above the mound of solder.