MORE HELPFUL
SOLDERING TIPS
AND TRICKS
•
Keep your
soldering tip clean
by wiping it often
on a damp sponge.
•
Also keep it tinned by
occasionally melting
a little solder onto it.
•
Don’t blow on the
hot solder or touch
anything until the joint
has cooled completely.
A good solder joint
is shiny – a sign that
it was left to cool
undisturbed.
•
Plan so each joint
is only soldered once.
Resoldered joints
are messy and more
likely to fail.
SOLDERING
1.
Insert tinned wire through lug hole
before soldering and bend to secure.
2.
Melt a small amount of solder onto
the tip of the iron (“tinning” the iron).
3.
Hold the tip against the connection
until the connection reaches soldering
temperature. This should take just a
few seconds.
4.
Feed solder to the connection, not
to the iron. Stop feeding solder once
the lug hole is filled. Keep the iron on
the connection for a second longer;
this pause gives time for all of the flux
to cook out of the joint. After the joint
has cooled, trim away the excess wires.
