How to solder
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http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-solder/step3/Soldering-wire/
3 Ways to Solder - wikiHow
How To Solder - Soldering Tutorial
http://www.ehow.com/how_376_solder-wires.html
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There is a very useful booklet by R. Brewster, "The Art of Soldering" (Babani Electronics Books, ISBN 0 85934 324 3) My reprinting is 2003. Bit outdated since the advent of lead-free solder (which requires a significantly higher temperature than lead-containing solder) and organic no-clean fluxes, but it's a good primer for getting into the black art.
Keep clear of solders and fluxes used for plumbing. Way too vicious for what we need.
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No clean rosin cored solders such as Kester 245 work fine.
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Advice: Soldering - The Black Art De-mystified (Part 1)
Advice: Soldering - The Black Art De-mystified (Part 2)
Advice: Soldering - The Black Art De-mystified (Part 3)
hope they help
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And as said by others here on YMR, it is a case of lots of practice.. and when I first started to learnt to solder wires back in 1957 in telecommunications, our irons were huge and 75W.
Back in Naval apprenticeship days I recall my instructor's dictum in what was the 'Tinsmithing Module 1' was
'Get'it really 'ot, get'it clean, get it in fast and get out even faster….'
With a mini gas hearth and a 12oz iron, my 'box, tinplate, micrometer holding' was not a thng of beauty..
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A black art maybe but one I get a kick out of when I get it right.
Thank you for the links.
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I had been very careful but, as I had it to hand, had used "Bakers Soldering Flux" - an absolute no-no for model railways - it eats everything in sight unless cleaned off with a pressure washer :oops: :oops:
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Back in the day of rectangular 1 gallon oil cans, we had to cut a small square "patch" out of one can and solder it over a hole in another after which, it was checked for water-tightness by the instructor.
Not only was it b###dy difficult to get all the paint off so the solder would stick, but also very difficult to get enough heat into the job with all that tin around. The hefty, glowing iron did help.
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