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| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: Peale on August 26, 2006, 07:32:24 am ---Also: solder flows UP. --- End quote --- What do you mean by that? Solder flows to areas that are both hot enough and solderable, regardless of direction. |
| hypernova:
--- Quote ---And: don't heat the solder, heat the part. --- End quote --- I'm so impatient, I rarely ever follow this. Especially if it's just two wires. That and I don't have any 3rd hands or anything. |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: hypernova on August 26, 2006, 11:36:47 am --- --- Quote ---And: don't heat the solder, heat the part. --- End quote --- I'm so impatient, I rarely ever follow this. Especially if it's just two wires. That and I don't have any 3rd hands or anything. --- End quote --- You will get horrible joints by heating the solder and not the parts. BTW, that is sometimes referred to as goose poop(ing). |
| ChadTower:
He'll get horrible joints anyway if the wires aren't solidly joined before soldering. They'll have zero mechanical strength. |
| MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 26, 2006, 02:24:24 pm --- He'll get horrible joints anyway if the wires aren't solidly joined before soldering. They'll have zero mechanical strength. --- End quote --- Well, surface-mount and through-hole components are not solidly joined prior to soldering, and neither are copper pipes that you solder together for your plumbing. A soldered joint actually creates an alloy between the solder and the material that has been soldered (not to the extent that welding does however) and is very strong if done correctly. What is important when soldering wires together is that they stay together as you solder and that they have a good amount of surface contact area with each other. Twisting them together is the easiest way to ensure both of those things. And of course, you heat the wire, not the solder. |
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