Jasper
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| posted on 26/3/03 at 05:13 PM |
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Soldering
I was gonna avoid this completly as I had only bad memories of soldering at school, loads of solder on the tip and non on the wires.
However last night I read 'Detail' Deans 'how to' guide in the latest Which Kit, and spent the morning joining wires by this
method and heat shrink. Got lots of lovely slim neat joins where I was going to have masses of bulky blue butt connectors.
Another new skill in the bag!
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Findlay234
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| posted on 26/3/03 at 07:21 PM |
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I guess thats what the whole locost thang is all about learning new skills, well it is for me although im not welding together my chassis.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 27/3/03 at 09:39 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
I was gonna avoid this completly as I had only bad memories of soldering at school, loads of solder on the tip and non on the wires.
I spent a large part of my late teens wiring distribution frames for BT (or whatever it was then). Probably soldered several hundred joints a day.
Any form of soldering holds no fears for me now! 8-)
DJ
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jonti
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| posted on 27/3/03 at 01:38 PM |
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Another new skill in the bag!
You'll be knockin' out those little brass 'n' glass greenhouses for flowers next ! Stained glass winders !! coo the
opportunities are endless...Solder beats crimpin every time. 'till you want to disconnect something anyway
OFROK
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Jasper
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| posted on 27/3/03 at 02:16 PM |
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'till you want to disconnect something anyway
Yeah - discovered that one this morning when I forgot to put the heat shrink on first!
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/3/03 at 08:25 PM |
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Undoing solder joints
I use one of those Dan dare raygun type soldering irons to melt the solder if I go wrong. 100 watts, don't leave the trigger in too long though
or the heat travels back up the wire and melts the insulation.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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John D Willimann
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| posted on 2/4/03 at 01:18 PM |
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Aha, for once an area where I can bring my expertise. 
Sorry, if some of this sounds obvious.
If you unsolder properly your connections(leaving your connector nice and clean), it makes it a lot easier to solder your cables again.
Make sure you have twisted your cable and put solder in it before soldering it.
Heat your solder, take out cable.
If you can handle your component, you can heat it to melt solder and give a big tap on your workbench to get rid of the excess.
You can also get a little pump to take off solder. These are really good. You even have some fancier ones that attach to your soldering iron with a
little pump on an electirc motor(but these are total over-kill here).
Then there is a copper tressle, that you apply on your component, put your solder iron on it. The tressle will suck up all the solder. Et voila!
A good solder holds serious tugging and is shiny! If it's not shiny start again and again and again. The best is to get solder that has a rosin
core.
Also always have a clean soldering iron.
John =:OB
P.S. I learned electronics in Switzerland where we are really anal about such things. :p
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 2/4/03 at 04:20 PM |
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screwfix do a kit with a gun and an iron plus the sucker and spare hands thingy,good value and it works
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Dave_the_sparks
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soldering
another good soldering tip if you are joining a bunch of wires is to stagger the joints so that when you re-tape you dont get a big knott in your
lovely loom!
NEVER USE SCOTCH LOCKS!! they are evil! beware, you use one and they multiply! next time you look there are thousands of them feeding off your wiring
loom!!!!!! I think i will lay down now.
mobile auto-electrical specialists www.hammondauto.co.uk
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