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| Level42:
About the soldering: that wire you used may be a bit too thin. Do you have a bit thicker wire around ? Also, the solderings look......well like a mess...Sorry to say so..... It looks like you didn't let the solder do it's work "by itself". When I was taught soldering the teacher said "let the solder do the work".Anyway, since the solder on there is about 27 years old, it will not run easily anymore. To compensate for this, hold a tiny bit of new solder to the soldering and flow that together with the old soldering. That will make it run better. Let it completely get fluid. Don't be too worried on applying the iron a little longer. (It looks like you applied it too shortly, or you used an iron that was not hot enough). The best thing would be to suck away the old solder completely and make a complete now soldering. But if you don't have soldering wick or a soldering sucker, you will be OK with just reflowing it with a bit of new solder like I explained. Here's how it should, and shouldn't look like... |
| Spyridon:
--- Quote from: Level42 on July 31, 2008, 02:36:19 am ---About the soldering: that wire you used may be a bit too thin. Do you have a bit thicker wire around ? --- End quote --- I thought a thicker wire would be better, but I went with the approach they used in this article and several others I found. --- Quote ---Also, the solderings look......well like a mess...Sorry to say so..... --- End quote --- You're probably right. This is the first time I've ever used a soldering iron and I didn't have anyone locally to show me the ropes. Do you think what I have will work or does it need to be redone? I do have continuity across the break. |
| ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Level42 on July 31, 2008, 02:36:19 am ---About the soldering: that wire you used may be a bit too thin. Do you have a bit thicker wire around ? --- End quote --- That is the first thing that occurred to me too. That trace is way too wide for a 30 gauge wire to replace it. Agreed on the joints... if they're not cold now they will be after heating up a bunch of times. |
| Wade:
The most important tip anyone told me about soldering was this: Don't use the iron to melt the solder... use the iron to heat the parts and then let the parts melt the solder. The only time you should put solder on the iron is to To me, that seems to be the key to making a good solder joint. Before I was told that, all my solder jobs were horrible. Wade |
| ChadTower:
Yeah. That, and you're not even managing the solder. You're managing the heat. I wasn't a good solderer until I figured out to stop thinking of solder movement and start thinking of heat movement. The solder will follow the heat, even away from the part into the air, so if you keep the heat exactly where you want it the solder does its own thing properly. |
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