You're probably right, there are a million other videos online about soldering. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND that yours is the absolute best. Thank you so very much for your clear and well communicated message. I can now solder.
I was in Ethiopia for work a couple of months ago, and we ended up having to solder a couple wires back onto a military plug connector in order to not be sent home due to equipment damage reasons and lose the contract. We eventually got it back on, but it took about 6 hours and was extremely stressful. I wish I could have seen this beforehand - I just tested out what you showed here on a similar setup and it took me 5 minutes. Awesome video, thank you!
Thank you Dick, I've never soldered before and was a bit nervous about starting, but thanks to you video I'm on my way. You explained it so simple . Thank you.
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Thanks for this. I had some really small (maybe 22awg) wire on one of the fans on my 3d printer break and I've been avoiding fixing it for too long. I know how to solder large stuff but not really small wires and most videos are for larger wires and involve twisting the wires together before soldering which is really difficult to do with small wires.
You should rather prehead the wire, and hold the solder on the wire. It will melt and suck up the the solder when the right temperature is reached. If you add the solder to the soldering iron, you can hang balls of solder on wires without making a good Connection. If you like to upgrade your Soldering Iron, try one fom Ersa. They have a ceramic heat element that heats up to 400°C in a few seconds. You can dial in your temperature. I bought an RDS80 for one paticular reason. The grip is closer to the tip. It's working similiar to handling a pen. If you grip a pen all the way at the end you have less control. A tiny movement at the back becomes a bigger one at the front. Use some heat resistant rubber on the crocodile Clips, they'll mess up the insulation on small wires.
I bought a $30 soldering iron kit from Amazon. It will not get hot enough to run solder on the small wires. I just bought a more expensive, name brand solder iron hopefully it does its job
when stripping really small wires a quick easy trick I learned doing low voltage. use a light hear up the insulation. pull heat away grab wire and pull off insulation
thanks for the help .. im about to do my first solder today ever lol my drones motor broke so i gotta solder a new one to it .. ima do a video of my first try lol ever
Cool. Is 0.8mm or 1mm diameter soldering wire/lead, preferable? Which is your favorite diameter for solering lead/wire? How do you solder aluminum wires (thin wires). Thank you.
A very helpful video but hoped you would give advice on insulating the wire after the pieces are soldered together. The wires I am needing to solder will lay across a circuit board and I am concerned about shorting out something.
my soldering iron goes up to 450. but it takes 1 minute to melt any solder. when it finally melts it just turns into a ball and falls on the table and wont soak into the wires? what am i doing wrong? wrong solder or is my soldering iron just bad? I've soldered in the past n that never once happened its on the highest heat setting and if i turn it down it still happens and the solders look messy and bad took me an hour to solder 5 small wires
I got 0.6mm wire, the thinnest wire I’ve ever had, to solder onto a resistor and 1.5mm LED for my OO scale building. I’ve never used my new soldering iron yet. I’m more concerned about stripping the wires than the soldering. I think I may try melting the insulation off the wires instead of cutting it off.
If you do, your tip will end-up as filthy as his. Just grab it in a pair of wire strippers. If you don't have the correct gauge strippers, get them. In a pinch - teeth work for tiny thin insulation though. ;)
Got a question. Doing this for the first time. Our washing machine we were told needed a $500+ repair. It has only done 700 loads of laundry but out of warranty. I pulled the controller board out to find a fuse burned out on it. I am not sure if I should put a slow-blow or fast acting fuse in it. Can anyone give me advice on this? THANKS!
This is just a simulation For real you would find the appropriate size heat shrink and put on the wire away from the solder joint then when cool slide it over and use the appropriate heat source to shrink the material, then you are completely insulated and stronger.
my solder rolls off my iron tip and my wires like water off a duck's back and just lands on the table in a nice little drop. what can I do to get it to stick to the wires? I don't have flux, but I have rosin.
Acid core solder works the best. The right soldering iron with the appropriate heat setting. The gold container in the video has a metal mesh that cleans the tip of the iron. Apply the solder to the tip and it should coat the tip. Apply a drop of solder then hold the tip to the wire The solder should transfer to the wire apply a little more solder as needed to soak in the wires That should do it. Keep cleaning the tip in the mesh for the best success. Try this and let me know. American s Acid core solder not Chinese please.
@@DickGibson Thanks. Well, I tried sticking the solder higher up along the side of the tip since it rolls off the tip, and it stuck there, so I was able to complete my project. Thanks so much! (oh, and I made some flux with resin dissolved in a little rubbing alcohol and a few drops of glycerin (saw diff. video on youtube about that) and that seemed to help a tiny bit. not much, but hey, project was a success. Salvaged old philips mini computer speaker.
What to do if the wires don't accept the solder? Like the solder just behaves like water and oil.... I can build a huge drop which I put on both wires, and it doesn't connect :(((
Good solder not Chinese! Flux/rosin core A good soldering iron Tip clean and tinned with new solder Tip the proper temperature Above all-good quality wire!!!!! If t wire is not shinny it won’t take solder You might need to get some rosin in a tube or tin and add a small amount to each wire first One or more of these tips should help
@@DickGibson does it matter if one wire is copper and the other is aluminium ? im trying to repair my head phones and the wise are like ... i dont know a large sized dogs hair in dia .. and im shaking like i got the dts and the sold just wont take its a 40w iron ?
@@firefox5926 As far as I know you can't solder aluminum wire. Soldering successfully requires flux to make it adhere to the metal, the correct amount of heat, the correct solder and a good iron.
@@DickGibson side note ... how do i tell the difference between a pre tinned wire and a aluminum one ? its this stuff www.jaycar.co.nz/red-light-duty-hook-up-wire-25m/p/WH3000 and im trying to splice it with this really thin wire that came with the headphone set im trying to repair and its doing my head in lol ... i wonder if they make conductive hot glue... p.s actually now im thinking of stripping the wire out of an old monopole motor winding because that should be copper and also insulated :)
Reminder: Put your soldering iron down if you are not going to immediately solder. I burned my hand cause I went to adjust the soldering temperature forgetting the same hand was holding a hot burning soldering iron.
Got the job done well but you don't need a good soldering gun or good wire. If the techniques right it'll be just fine. I love this country but too many people think that you need high-tech or name brand equipment to do the job. You don't you just have to have good technique
There might be a million videos on how to solder but most of them are American. I'd like to find one with someone who knows how to pronounce solder properly! I'll have to watch them with the sound off before I go mad!
forget the lotion these wires are thick as hell... try soldering monitor wires for 4k uhd monitors... burnt insulation off once w/ blow torch corroded wires so much so that not even flux would bond the solder to wires!
Really shoulda flux’d that joint before soldering the final connection. It will make sure there is no oxidation present at the joint and it will ensure it’s strength. What he did will work, but it’s not ideal.
SHOULDN'T YOU TWIST THE WIRES TOGETHER TO OBTAIN A GOOD MECHANICAL JOINT FIRST? THE WAY YOU DID YOU COULD HAVE A "DRY JOINT" WHICH WILL CAUSE TROUBLE AND EVENTUALLY EVEN COME APART?
@@Neek0tine Yes. This video is just 20miles of bad road. I was looking for a video I could send someone, but it certainly wouldn't be this. Search the interwebs for "Western Union Solder Joint" (or [...] Splice aka "a Linesman Splice") Solder is not a mechanical relief. Just completely wrong. The long-tie variation of the Western Union is preferred for solder flow, but I just make short-ties because there's less chance of wire breakage from flex long-term (and it needs less heat shrink) And his tip is filthy. And the heat is set WAY TO high. And that's an "iron" or a "pencil", a "soldering gun" is a heavier device that is shaped like a gun and is much higher wattage. The iron or pencil is correct for this application. If you were trying to join multi-aught gauge wire, though, you'd want a gun instead of an iron. (I'd accuse him of sucking too many lead fumes - but I've been soldering as an avocation as well as vocationally for like 40+ years - although these days my rework stations have smoke absorbers which keep it out of the air)
450C is way too hot man, Lmao especially for small stuff. Thats why you're sponge is all burnt up omg 450C. Also, try to use lead free, a lot safer. your joints aren't very secure looking either. QC department would reject
You can push whatever button you want. It's pronounced solder in the English speaking world. On your reckon,if we all pronounced words the old way from Wikipedia,nobody would understand what the hell we were saying. Speak English and pronounce correctly instead of the lazy way.
agedflier he is pronouncing it correctly, Google solder and click the speaker icon next to the pronunciation /ˈsädər/ and you will hear the proper pronunciation
How do you get the pronunciation “soder” out of “solder”!!!! It’s called English for a reason, so please say it correctly. Other wise a fantastic video.
You're probably right, there are a million other videos online about soldering. THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND that yours is the absolute best. Thank you so very much for your clear and well communicated message. I can now solder.
Thank you soo much this review made my day, heck, my year!!!!
I was in Ethiopia for work a couple of months ago, and we ended up having to solder a couple wires back onto a military plug connector in order to not be sent home due to equipment damage reasons and lose the contract. We eventually got it back on, but it took about 6 hours and was extremely stressful. I wish I could have seen this beforehand - I just tested out what you showed here on a similar setup and it took me 5 minutes. Awesome video, thank you!
the wire I'm about to solder is about 5x smaller than that... pretty challenging! wish me luck
Thank you Dick, I've never soldered before and was a bit nervous about starting, but thanks to you video I'm on my way. You explained it so simple . Thank you.
Glad you liked my comment I was just about to break out the iron and need a refresher. Great timing! Good day
Great video! All other videos I've seen so far show how to solder larger stranded wires which is much easier to figure out for oneself.
That was an excellent video. I am used to large wire solder and this gave a few hints I didn't think of
Thanks a big bunch for watching!!
Step 1: Change playback speed to 1.75x
Step 2: Enjoy! 😄
You need a heck of a lot of patience to solder, that's for sure! Great video!
That's literally what I did before seeing your comment hahah.
Good info. I needed a soldering refresher because I have to repair some broken wires connected to one of my garage door sensors. Thanks for posting.
Thank you Dick! I learned alot and just soldered a 22ga. pos & negative connector for a bicycle headlight!
Great video and some great tips!
Excellent video. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for your excellent tutorial. A great help for wiring my dollshouse
Great video I’ve never really done soldering before so this was helpful I’m about to solder a small motor for a model aircraft
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Thumbs up! Good video. Barney nipped it in the bud.
Nice, I will try this with hopes of being successful. Thanks!
Thanks for this. I had some really small (maybe 22awg) wire on one of the fans on my 3d printer break and I've been avoiding fixing it for too long. I know how to solder large stuff but not really small wires and most videos are for larger wires and involve twisting the wires together before soldering which is really difficult to do with small wires.
i know generaly how to solder wires but this helped me fine tune my skills and make it perfect thanks 👍🏼
Thank you sooo much that makes me feel great.
Thanks a big bunch for watching!!!
You could use nail cutters to strip the wires
Uncle Deek you're the Bob Ross of soldering
Took you forever but GREAT way to do it
Great simple video. Thanks very much.
You should rather prehead the wire, and hold the solder on the wire. It will melt and suck up the the solder when the right temperature is reached. If you add the solder to the soldering iron, you can hang balls of solder on wires without making a good Connection. If you like to upgrade your Soldering Iron, try one fom Ersa. They have a ceramic heat element that heats up to 400°C in a few seconds. You can dial in your temperature. I bought an RDS80 for one paticular reason. The grip is closer to the tip. It's working similiar to handling a pen. If you grip a pen all the way at the end you have less control. A tiny movement at the back becomes a bigger one at the front. Use some heat resistant rubber on the crocodile Clips, they'll mess up the insulation on small wires.
I bought a $30 soldering iron kit from Amazon. It will not get hot enough to run solder on the small wires. I just bought a more expensive, name brand solder iron hopefully it does its job
Uncle deeck. Great job explaining
This is exactly what I was searching for. But it was not what showed up when I searched for it.
Thanks, great video!
when stripping really small wires a quick easy trick I learned doing low voltage. use a light hear up the insulation. pull heat away grab wire and pull off insulation
Thanks for the excellent tutorial. Do you know of any DIY setups that can be used in place of the roach clip wire holder unit?
what would you set the temperture at? I like your video you went slow and explained it well!
well I got the idea ..for small wires now .. thanks for the tutorial
I find that using the soldering iron to "cut" the sheath then pulling the rest away, works really well for smaller wire.
How much money do you usually fine for this?
Nice work, thank you =D
Thank you very much!
very educative. thank you regards
Great video my friend thank you ever so much ..😀
very useful video, thank you
thanks for the help .. im about to do my first solder today ever lol my drones motor broke so i gotta solder a new one to it .. ima do a video of my first try lol ever
I loved this video thanks. I've had my gun now for 3 weeks scared to use the dam thing. here we goooooo
there really isn't enough videos on how to solder so thanks
Cool. Is 0.8mm or 1mm diameter soldering wire/lead, preferable? Which is your favorite diameter for solering lead/wire? How do you solder aluminum wires (thin wires).
Thank you.
do you have a link to them wire strippers? i can not find a wire stripper for small wires.
thanks that helped alot
Thanks, very helpful
I have been soldering wrong my entire life
A very helpful video but hoped you would give advice on insulating the wire after the pieces are soldered together. The wires I am needing to solder will lay across a circuit board and I am concerned about shorting out something.
A little late but my plan is to use shrink tubing and a hair dryer.
Go for it buddy
thank you sir.
+Nick Thanks so much for watching
my soldering iron goes up to 450. but it takes 1 minute to melt any solder. when it finally melts it just turns into a ball and falls on the table and wont soak into the wires? what am i doing wrong? wrong solder or is my soldering iron just bad? I've soldered in the past n that never once happened its on the highest heat setting and if i turn it down it still happens and the solders look messy and bad took me an hour to solder 5 small wires
I got 0.6mm wire, the thinnest wire I’ve ever had, to solder onto a resistor and 1.5mm LED for my OO scale building. I’ve never used my new soldering iron yet. I’m more concerned about stripping the wires than the soldering. I think I may try melting the insulation off the wires instead of cutting it off.
If you do, your tip will end-up as filthy as his. Just grab it in a pair of wire strippers. If you don't have the correct gauge strippers, get them. In a pinch - teeth work for tiny thin insulation though. ;)
👏🏼👏🏼 thanks!
"I don't have enough teeth left to do it" lol
Perfect! Amigo=Friend xD Very good! From Venezuela: God blesses you! - Thank you!
What is the name of the device with the alligator clips? I would like to buy one.
Called Helping Hands
On Amazon
Way too much heat try 300c, and your joints could use flux before joining them as they look weak. Apply solder directly to the wires and not the iron.
..Lets do that again in slow motion...cause thats how I work... This guy is hilarious
thank you.
I found a good way I have been using to strip a wire since I don't have a stripper is to just use a lighter
Got a question. Doing this for the first time. Our washing machine we were told needed a $500+ repair. It has only done 700 loads of laundry but out of warranty. I pulled the controller board out to find a fuse burned out on it. I am not sure if I should put a slow-blow or fast acting fuse in it. Can anyone give me advice on this? THANKS!
Sorry my soldering experience is totally on model airplanes and trucks/
0:10 what are those clamps or pins called?
Thanks for the helpful video. That "small" wire is still a lot larger than what I'm using :(
Thank you
How would you then insulate smaller wires after soldering
This is just a simulation
For real you would find the appropriate size heat shrink and put on the wire away from the solder joint then when cool slide it over and use the appropriate heat source to shrink the material, then you are completely insulated and stronger.
is that what you call small? i have wires that are 0,01mm thicc, and that is so hard to do, i think the best way is hot glue or something
my solder rolls off my iron tip and my wires like water off a duck's back and just lands on the table in a nice little drop. what can I do to get it to stick to the wires? I don't have flux, but I have rosin.
Acid core solder works the best.
The right soldering iron with the appropriate heat setting. The gold container in the video has a metal mesh that cleans the tip of the iron. Apply the solder to the tip and it should coat the tip. Apply a drop of solder then hold the tip to the wire The solder should transfer to the wire apply a little more solder as needed to soak in the wires
That should do it. Keep cleaning the tip in the mesh for the best success.
Try this and let me know.
American s
Acid core solder not Chinese please.
@@DickGibson Thanks. Well, I tried sticking the solder higher up along the side of the tip since it rolls off the tip, and it stuck there, so I was able to complete my project. Thanks so much! (oh, and I made some flux with resin dissolved in a little rubbing alcohol and a few drops of glycerin (saw diff. video on youtube about that) and that seemed to help a tiny bit. not much, but hey, project was a success. Salvaged old philips mini computer speaker.
What to do if the wires don't accept the solder?
Like the solder just behaves like water and oil.... I can build a huge drop which I put on both wires, and it doesn't connect :(((
Good solder not Chinese!
Flux/rosin core
A good soldering iron
Tip clean and tinned with new solder
Tip the proper temperature
Above all-good quality wire!!!!!
If t wire is not shinny it won’t take solder
You might need to get some rosin in a tube or tin and add a small amount to each wire first
One or more of these tips should help
@@DickGibson does it matter if one wire is copper and the other is aluminium ? im trying to repair my head phones and the wise are like ... i dont know a large sized dogs hair in dia .. and im shaking like i got the dts and the sold just wont take its a 40w iron ?
@@firefox5926
As far as I know you can't solder aluminum wire.
Soldering successfully requires flux to make it adhere to the metal, the correct amount of heat, the correct solder and a good iron.
@@DickGibson side note ... how do i tell the difference between a pre tinned wire and a aluminum one ? its this stuff www.jaycar.co.nz/red-light-duty-hook-up-wire-25m/p/WH3000 and im trying to splice it with this really thin wire that came with the headphone set im trying to repair and its doing my head in lol ... i wonder if they make conductive hot glue...
p.s actually now im thinking of stripping the wire out of an old monopole motor winding because that should be copper and also insulated :)
Reminder: Put your soldering iron down if you are not going to immediately solder. I burned my hand cause I went to adjust the soldering temperature forgetting the same hand was holding a hot burning soldering iron.
Great comment thanks a big bunch for watching!
There are places you can't get those little clip into. Damn, those suck....
I for some stupid reason never thought of using the third hand like you. I keep it turned away from me, no wonder soldering is hard for me.
Sometimes you're holding stuff too close to the camera. Also, what about the shrink tubing?
Got the job done well but you don't need a good soldering gun or good wire. If the techniques right it'll be just fine. I love this country but too many people think that you need high-tech or name brand equipment to do the job. You don't you just have to have good technique
Just use a lighter to burn the insulation off. It Won’t damage the wire.
Why? Uh maybe because it's TOXIC?!
There might be a million videos on how to solder but most of them are American. I'd like to find one with someone who knows how to pronounce solder properly! I'll have to watch them with the sound off before I go mad!
forget the lotion these wires are thick as hell... try soldering monitor wires for 4k uhd monitors... burnt insulation off once w/ blow torch corroded wires so much so that not even flux would bond the solder to wires!
Really shoulda flux’d that joint before soldering the final connection. It will make sure there is no oxidation present at the joint and it will ensure it’s strength. What he did will work, but it’s not ideal.
Focusing the lens helps.
Ain't nobody even looking at your cloud videos so shut up.
Several first rules of soldering.....funny
You don't even twist them, huh.
Heat setting? Forget it!!
I burn off the insulation with a barbeque lighter.
Nasa tech says noo
SHOULDN'T YOU TWIST THE WIRES TOGETHER TO OBTAIN A GOOD MECHANICAL JOINT FIRST? THE WAY YOU DID YOU COULD HAVE A "DRY JOINT" WHICH WILL CAUSE TROUBLE AND EVENTUALLY EVEN COME APART?
I've been looking for this. Anyone?
@@Neek0tine Yes. This video is just 20miles of bad road. I was looking for a video I could send someone, but it certainly wouldn't be this. Search the interwebs for "Western Union Solder Joint" (or [...] Splice aka "a Linesman Splice") Solder is not a mechanical relief. Just completely wrong. The long-tie variation of the Western Union is preferred for solder flow, but I just make short-ties because there's less chance of wire breakage from flex long-term (and it needs less heat shrink)
And his tip is filthy. And the heat is set WAY TO high. And that's an "iron" or a "pencil", a "soldering gun" is a heavier device that is shaped like a gun and is much higher wattage. The iron or pencil is correct for this application. If you were trying to join multi-aught gauge wire, though, you'd want a gun instead of an iron. (I'd accuse him of sucking too many lead fumes - but I've been soldering as an avocation as well as vocationally for like 40+ years - although these days my rework stations have smoke absorbers which keep it out of the air)
I'm going to guess that solder comes from Russia.
Lol
I say China
trying to solder two smalle as hell wires into the same contact in a small board is a pain in the ass......
yea like for my active bass pickup
That should hold for about a week.
450C is way too hot man, Lmao especially for small stuff. Thats why you're sponge is all burnt up omg 450C. Also, try to use lead free, a lot safer. your joints aren't very secure looking either. QC department would reject
It's not "sodder"!
We yanks talk funnny!
😁
/ˈsädər/ No L fool.
not too cut through the wire or your finger, geeezz... your thumb is made of steel!
You can push whatever button you want. It's pronounced solder in the English speaking world. On your reckon,if we all pronounced words the old way from Wikipedia,nobody would understand what the hell we were saying. Speak English and pronounce correctly instead of the lazy way.
Im going to have to do a video on how to say the word SOLDER... spelt S O L D E R.
'Soder' xD
agedflier he is pronouncing it correctly, Google solder and click the speaker icon next to the pronunciation /ˈsädər/ and you will hear the proper pronunciation
/ˈsädər/ No L fool.
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Goddamn dude! Put some lotion on those hands, your skin is dying.
There is a letter L in solder. Not sodder. English!!!
Malcolm Eccles he is pronouncing it correctly, Google solder.
/sädər/ you can even push the button and it will tell you how it is pronounced
There is a letter L in salmon too, imagine my surprise when i found out the L is silent.
/ˈsädər/ No L fool.
Solder !!! Fools
How do you get the pronunciation “soder” out of “solder”!!!! It’s called English for a reason, so please say it correctly. Other wise a fantastic video.
I say tomato and you say toomaato
How do you pronounce "salmon"? If you want to be a linguistic police, at least spell "otherwise" correctly.
I don't get it. He pronounces it the way it sounds from a Google pronunciation from Oxford. /ˈsädər/
You sound like a fucking retard.
SoLdering. That's SOLD......ER.........ING