How To Make Your Own Soldering Wire

This can be done with electrical tape or insulation wraps as well as shrink-to-fit insulation sleeves that you fit over the join and then apply heat to shrink.

How to make your own soldering wire. Watch out for the hot iron while youre. The little hassles add up. I just cut a piece of a lamp wire i had lying around and i stripped it it was so old that it stripped easily.

Try sourcing some alli solder it may work for your particular wire. On the other side connect the red wire to the nichrome wire at the base. Plug in the iron wait and wait for it to heat up wait some more while your work piece warms up.

Use good quality sharp wire cutters dykes for cutting the cable. If you want the kids to be able to solder the wire it will be good for you to tin it first as the flux fumes are also nastier than those of conventionally fluxed solder. Using jump rings is probably the easiest way.

If all seems good go ahead and expand your sleeving back up to the edge of the connector. I use this type of solder extensively for my sculpture work. But there are others.

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A Dremel tool with a good cutoff wheel can also be used. Insert the batteries Your battery-powered soldering iron is now ready. Cut off any bullshit on the end of the wire.