How To Solder Really Small Wires

A few tips and tricks to use when soldering is to first always make sure you do not have a cold solder joint make sure you are using the right solder for the job and always make sure you seal your solder joint from all types of weather.

How to solder really small wires. Ad Quality Solder Wire Drawing Machine. Sold in the electronics department. Install the shrink wrap first solder the wires then slide the wrap to cover the solder shrink the wrap with a flame careful the wrap can shrink too much and split open then you will need to start over.

If you can heat it to solder melting temps faster then you can touch and go and use less heat over-all. Its now time to demonstrate how to solder wires together. Find a piece of solid copper wire thats about 14 or smaller and maybe 1 or 2 inches long.

Very thin like a hair enamel coated wire works when using a reasonably small soldering tip. File one end to a point. On really small wires i dont tin them cant leave the heat on them but just for a second.

If you did the cable and the tag at the same time by the time the solder properly melted the wire insulation would have started to melt. The longer you hold the iron to the tab the more the heat will travel up the metal tab. Lay the wire on a small block of wood.

Use heat shrink to cover the connection. Best thing is to arrange the wires and bend them around to where the ends lay on each other but not quite perfectly straight so theyre in kindof alittle X. This process should melt the solder and coat both wires evenly.

The wires are so small that the solder doesnt really stick so what you have to do is as quickly as possible melt the solder onto the iron but with the joint DIRECTLY in the middle of the two. Soldering is done by heating the metal surface with the soldering iron and then placing the solder onto the surface so it melts. Then touch the solder and gun to it at the same time and kindof pull away as you do it until a tad of solder hangs right on it.