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I love RUclips because of videos like this, where the pros go out of their way to show us, newbies how it's done, and the right way! The education side of RUclips is my favorite part of RUclips lol
Thank you! Getting ready to solder a bunch of wires and this is exactly what I needed before starting. Also, very grateful for the closed-captioning; can't always be in a listening-friendly environment, so being able to read the narration is awesome!
Your teaching style is superb and your camera close ups deliver the final touches. Thank you for sharing your skills, techniques and education with us noobs... Cheers.
After some years of working with custom electronic projects I don't think that I'm a "noob" in soldering, but I could learn something new from this video. Thanks! :)
Thank you for not taking this video down that you made in 2015. I am going to solder my Swann Camera wire right now, this really helped me to get the courage to do it myself. Gracias from Mexico
Thanks for the video! It is so cool that after soldering for years, then not soldering for years, I can find such a good video in 2 minutes. Brushed up on the usual plus learned new stuff, can't beat it.
Great tips! Thanks! Unfortunately, it never ceases to amaze me how someone, like you, goes to considerable tima, trouble and probably expense to setup, record, narrate, upload and ultimately share some valuable experience you've learned over the years only to have 1 or 2 so-called "experts" (legends in their own minds) who've done none of the above criticize your effort with hurtful commenrs. RUclips is overrun with these trolls who get some thrill out of putting down other people. So please disregard the negativity from those assholes. This was a terrific, extremely helpful tutorial for me. Thanks again.
Great job. 40 yrs of oxy/acetylene and Tig experience here and still struggle with solder with an iron. Stumbled across this looking for a clean way to insulate a branch on a wire harness with shrink wrap or expandable loom.
Excellent video... Still trying to find an efficient way to solder 10awg wire (used on marine trolling motor) together, to where the solder soaks all the way through. Got the soldering iron set to 750, using the largest tip I can get for that iron, and generous with the flux. The one thing I DIDN'T do was flux all the strands before "pushing" them together, nor did I use a piece of wire to hold it all in place, which from some of the videos I've seen looks like it may help distribute the heat around the joint helping the solder soak better. These videos are very helpful! So, thank you for taking the time 👍
Thank you for the kind words. 10 AWG should not be a big problem to solder. There are 2 "secrets" to soldering. 1) the work piece must be clean, bright fresh copper. Really clean. NO oxide. NO oils (from fingers, etc). 2) You must have adequate heat. Everything else is a "nice to have." And NEVER use acid flux on copper wiring. It will soak down into the insulation and keep eating away at the copper until it breaks. (I made this mistake, tried to clean out the flux over years, and still lost the battle. The stuff is cancerous.) So first, clean copper. Second, mechanically secure the connection. I have wrapped connections, but only when they are dodgy and I had no choice (emergecy boat wiring repair), not for heat dissipation. I have secured pig tail joints with a solderable crimp connector, but that was for mechanical strength. Third, apply flux if needed. Fourth, apply heat. Solder should melt at least 3 or 4 millimeters from the tip of the soldering iron (without having to touch the soldering iron). Finer solder costs more, but is easier to work with.
@@tsbrownie WOW...what an amazing reply. Thank you so much. Do you by any chance have an e-mail address you're ok to share on here? I'd like to send you a couple pics of exactly what I'm working with. I find something (off of a sheer hunch) that I think will answer a lot of questions and want to see your thoughts on it. As I stated before it's 10awg wire, but all the "bare" wire, when stripped is silver. I'm wondering if that's why the solder wasn't soaking through. I was able to scrape off that silver coating to get what looked like bare copper, but can't imagine doing that with all that wire, especially given how easy the individual strands can be. I honestly have no idea if the flux is "acid" or not, I didn't see the word acid anywhere, I just know it's MG Chemicals "no clean", and I'm using 63/37 almost religiously, and I upped the heat to 800. I purchased the widest tips I could, as well. I'm going to test the motor over the next couple of days to see if what I did actually worked. If it does, then the only thing I need to do is clean up the solder job which looks like typical newbie, gloopy sh!t. BUT........if that's the only part I got wrong, then I'll consider it a success, given how involved the repair was in the first place. It will then just be a matter of re-soldering the joint till I get it "proper". *I can't thank you enough for such a great reply. Let me know on that e-mail, or if you have a business site you can directly me to outside of RUclips. I'd like to stay in touch on this project till I'm satisfied it's done at a reasonable level.* Hope you had a very Merry Christmas, and if we don't talk, are able to bring in the New Year in a happy healthy, safe manner. 🙏
@@phillamoore157 From the MG website "This tacky no-clean flux paste uses a mix of rosin, thickener, and high-grade synthetically refined resin." So it should be OK. If the solder is "gloopy", it sounds like it's not getting hot enough, but that's just a guess. Also, a big tip on the soldering iron/gun may be an issue: too much mass to heat up. I'm not a pro, just been doing it for 61 years and had some training. I can't accept emails, especially with attachments; if you saw the dozens of daily account hacks I'm subject to, you'd understand why. Thank you for the Merry Christmas and New Year's wishes, my best to you and yours also!
To be honest; It this has cost me two hour lifetime to find a sensible video finally all my questions on the cable solder to a satisfactory result led! Many thanks for it!
I am glad you liked it. I started soldering when I was 6, I'm now 62. Taken courses along the way and done lots of soldering, so it has taken me a long time to learn!
A lot of good knowledge , I would add that after you wrap one wire around another wire squeeze them together with vise grips or a simular clamping tool , then solder. Thanks for sharing the video
Nice to see someone demonstrating good soldering practices on RUclips. I have worked in TV and radio engineering and industrial electronics just about all my life and it drives me nuts to see how some people solder. I did a NASA soldering corse years ago and it stuck with me.
Well thank you. I was not lucky enough to learn from NASA. I learned at the end of a fist; I was my older brother's slave and got it right or got hit. ;(
I worked in a TV repair shop when i was 16 answering the phone and selling TVs and radios and keeping the store clean. I got beat with a broom just about every day if i did not sweep the floor correctly so I know what you are talking about learning at the end of a fist. Your brother sounds like my older brother who beat on me quite often.
first, when soldering you must make a good mechanical connection, he has done that. 2nd, I see no cold solder joint. 3rd He is talking mostly about making automotive and marine connections. Solder is not a glue as some You Tubers seem to think it is. I have seen countless examples of horrendous soldering tutorials on RUclips this is not one of them. Might I suggest if you are such an authority on soldering practices that you post a video on the subject so we all can benefit from your soldering repertoire.
Thanks for your comment. I looked up that guy's youtube page, just a bunch of song lists. He's a troll. I run a clean establishment ;). I don't mind criticism, but I frown on people like him swearing, attacking others personally and trolling in general. I deleted his comment. If he comes back I will block him.
Great work and explanations. Really clean joints and never thought of wrapping wire around two bad/compromised joints. Nothing like age and wisdom that's in short supply these days . Thanks for posting.
great video. I agree with pretty much everything you said. The only exception being the t-splice. I would never do it that way mainly because taping it or heat shrinking it becomes complicated. I would simply do a 2-1 one joint, slide a pice of heat shrink over all three wires and then a larger piece over the entire thing.
Got my first iron today and I've soldered everything except the cat ;) pre fixing the connection by wrapping it in fine wire is a win, really makes a neat job, cheers. Now for the 2 wobbly usb ports.....
It's quite a long time since I first learned these things in school -- decades. Thank you for using your materials and for the demonstrations. Nice work!
I remember learning all of those splices, and our soldering lessons, in Vo-Ed, back in 1982-83. The field splice is a tricky one, as you have to tie a double loop knot in the wire. The Western Union is the one I use most, even today.
Thank you ! I too, have been soldering for 30+ years, mostly Automotive 12V wiring/harnesses/systems. Cars, Trucks & Harleys. I'm OCD when it comes to wiring connections & soldered joints ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! That's a good thing. I love it though. And I've learned a few nice tricks here as well ! Very good job tsbrownie, and thank you so much for taking your time & sharing your knowledge ! It will be put to very-good use on my end, fer sure !
Reminencent of the old Field Wireman course at Fort LeonardWood Mo back in 1970 but we did"t use solder as we were in the "field" and most of the time didn't have access to solder or irons. We made some very strong splices in the old field wire with it's multi construction of steel and copper wires. Interesting none-the less, and very usefull now that I am getting into the HAM scene.
Thanks. A lot of good info. For the last spice I personally would include two smaller heat shrink before I solder the two splices and then a bigger one over both splices. I just like the better insulation of double heat shrink.
I've also learned that IF the soldered area breaks loose, you should form the wire ends like hooks before you solder them together. So you have the physical strength to hold the wires together, just in case the soldering breaks. Even though it looks like your method also will have strength if it breaks. Very great video though! I've never heard of the silicone before, but I'll consider trying it :)
Thank you. Making hooks works, as does twisting. A good mechanical connection is always recommended. The joints I did with the bigger wires will hold my 88 kilos of weight. If a joint breaks it means it was "cold" or not done correctly (or may have overheated and melted).
When I was working at a company producing power electronic components for the Japanese market we conducted a lot of tests on how to achieve the strongest joints when splicing wires together. We worked in a team for about a year and a half trying out different soldering and cold welding techniques to see which one should end up in production. But, in clinical testing including corrosion, water, conductivity and pull testing conclusively it turned out that a correctly crimped butt splice without solder was (although very contradictory to our preconception) the strongest joint for our application. I should point out that it took high quality components and a specific typ of hydraulic crimping tool that had to crimp the splices at an exact point on the butt splice to achieve this result (which works fine if you're, say, a robot who can repeat the exact operation a million times without error). Yet in the face of all that produced evidence, I still hold a firm belief in just soldering the damn thing... it just makes so much more sense!
The last tip i found to be the best one, ive only recently started some soldering at home and i've spliced both wires at the same point like a right donut.
I have to solder connectors onto video coax cables used underwater that sometimes get water intrusion and corrode the shield or core. That trick for corroded with is a really good idea. I'll be using that one for sure. Thanks.
A varietion of the tube- with- hole method is to make a coil of smaller single strand wire around a drill bit that is the same size as the wire to be soldered and long enough to cover both bare wire ends, slip ends in each end of "wire tube" and solder. Makes a very nice connection. And can be used when little or no extra wire is available to twist together.
Thank you for this informative and helpful video. Enjoyed watching and def. learned somethings. I am in the process of wiring a CB to my car and this information will help a lot. I did wire a simple electric guitar once, P90 pickup and one volume one tone pot and I wish I knew these soldering tips at the time. Although the guitar functioned OK, the wiring cavity was not something I was in a hurry to show off!
Interesting. I always thought those butt splice thingies were crimped on. thanks so much for this video. So many hobbyists don't really know how to solder. I was fortunate to have both parents in the electronics field.
They do make crimp on types of course and they are more popular. These also can be crimped and soldered, in fact I would prefer that. Having a mechanical connection in addition is always best when soldering. One benefit of soldering a crimped connection is it ensures that corrosion / dissimilar metal reactions are greatly reduced - important in humid / wet / marine environments.
Thanks for the great video. The problems you had with the butt splice tube would have been reduced by applying the heat from underneath the tube and the solder from above. That way heat is allowed to propagate up into the joint while drawing the solder down into the tube. I think if you applied the heat from underneath your splices you would get generally better results. That having been said clearly you are very good at soldering and again thanks for the video.
useful to see you work - in some circumstances I would have pre - tinned the opposite ends of the wires or the larger part to reduce the heat loss down multiple wires then the final heat requirement when joined is reduced....
Thanks. Yes, I do pre-tinning too if the pieces are big, or I want to avoid heat damage or if there's a lot of stuff and I want to do it assembly line style quickly, ...
On a house, it would have to be done inside an electrical box and well insulated. The wire nuts usually used are referred to as solderless connectors. In the old days, they soldered their joints and wrapped them in tape sometimes with no box. If the cable is somehow energized beyond its capacity by lightning or a power line incident, the box contains any sparks that may fly at the point of higher resistance.
Very informative, nice camera work. I just got one thing to add, when you solder multi strand wires, they become stiff. To avoid the joint to brake due to shakes (in any vehichle) strap the joint close to exsisting wire to keep it steady, beeing supported) Fine work not too much solder, the strands should be as yours, visible. (I learned my soldering when I was with the Danish Airforce - things we soldered had to be as good or better than the original)
Thank you . Yes good point. I did not go into strain relief and fastening. Maybe a video for another day. I like Denmark: been there a couple times. Beautiful country and great people.
A further improvement to the 3-way with multistrand is to untwist the wire you are attaching to, put the other wire through, retwist, wrap the attaching wire, and solder. There’s a lot of vaiations possible with it, including ones for one of the wires being solid.
number 2: "basket weave" splice. Number 3, "NASA" splice (min. 3 turns @), Number 4: "butt" splice (typically crimped+ soldered)... modification of number 5: "military splice": form an "eye" in the strands of first wire (as with the eye of a needle) TIP: leave some insulation on the end of the second wire (to simplify "threading" the eye... wrap as above (removing remaining insulation end) wrap (collapsing "eye") solder and insulate.
- When soldering audio male connectors ex. RCA (phono) or headphones, put a female connector on the end, it will help hold the center pin in a perfect middle position. This applies for both male and female connectors of any type where the plastic will tend to become so soft that the center axe ends up with an angle. - Best cutters for small size wires under $5 = Nail cutters. Try to find a straight one without a curvature. Does an impeccable cut and will last you for years.
That third splice was the one we used on phone wires in Korea. Of course we didn't solder but if there was time we would tape the splice. Some of our phone wire had been broken and spliced so many times that we could only get communication on it for 2 miles instead of the rated 12 miles.
Love the mesh splice! I love using silicone tinned copper wire with a jet-lighter, takes some practice but really rewarding and by far the fastest way w/o a hot iron
Great upload..... I never really understand how people say, "Oh I can't soldier, i don't get it and just can't do it" I always think to myself, it's not rocket science, how han you not know how to heat copper wire and then add soldier....... but your joints are really good, i will definitly be mucking round with these joints tomorrow.... thanks bloke....
+tsbrownie Thank you for the great video. I just got my first soldering iron and am going to be doing some work wiring LED lights for my deck railing, and feel way more confident after watching your video. I of course will do a few practice solder connections first. Great camera work as well!!
Thank you. Be sure to use proper safety precautions. Wear eye protection. Pick up any splashed solder to keep away from kids and pets. Never work on connected wiring, etc. Have fun!
I have to be honest, Ive been soldering over 20 yrs, TH, SMD, you name it (IPC Cert) etc blah blah, but, I picked up a couple of tips from your video! Job well done, thx! ps I know what you mean when you say badly coroded wire! Ive seen copper that has turned black, and the product manufacturer *still let it pass..(scary)
+Scott x I wish I saw this video before I repaired my ABS wire on my car. The wires insulation was damaged and the wires were black like you mentioned! I did my best repairing the wire but feel that I could have done better. Overall my ABS light went away on my car 8)
Omar is Rad If the light went away, you did it! I remember a Simpsons episode where Homer saw a light pop up on the dashboard and he covered it with tape. Gotta love Homer, DOH!
Nice, thanks :-) By the way: Some times I need to connect cables and got no soldering iron. Before twisting them together like shown in the very first example I seperate the cable into maybe 4 parts each cable. Then I twist the first with the first, the second with the second etc and now got 2 cables with fout twisted ends. At last I make a worm out of those four ends like shown. This connection is not easy to destroy by pulling the cables. Wenn ich zwei Kabel verbinden möchte und die Verbindung einer gewissen Zugbelastung standhalten soll aber kein Lot habe, dann spleisse ich die Enden in 4 Teile auf und verdrille zunächst die vier Enden des einen Kabels mit denen des anderen Kabels, bevor ich alle 4 umeinander drehe.
Vielan dank! I would think that the better intertwined (more surface area contact) the better the electrical conduction. And it would likely help with mechanical strength as well.
I practiced making the staggering 'splice' connections a lot of time for electronics as to avoid short-circuits because it is very damaging to components. (13:43)
Nice tutorial and good solderings. One of the best soldering guides. You could invest to a more professional soldering iron. It looks that the tip temperatures were too cold and increasing it would shorten the soldering time.
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7 years old and still helping people. Thanks very much, helped me a lot.
Glad to hear that, thanks.
I love RUclips because of videos like this, where the pros go out of their way to show us, newbies how it's done, and the right way! The education side of RUclips is my favorite part of RUclips lol
Thank you! Getting ready to solder a bunch of wires and this is exactly what I needed before starting. Also, very grateful for the closed-captioning; can't always be in a listening-friendly environment, so being able to read the narration is awesome!
Glad I could help!
Subtitles also help us non-hearing folk too :)
Your teaching style is superb and your camera close ups deliver the final touches. Thank you for sharing your skills, techniques and education with us noobs... Cheers.
After some years of working with custom electronic projects I don't think that I'm a "noob" in soldering, but I could learn something new from this video. Thanks! :)
I am the worst solderer in the world. You are truly a professional and make it look so easy.
Great Video!! Thanks
Thank you for not taking this video down that you made in 2015. I am going to solder my Swann Camera wire right now, this really helped me to get the courage to do it myself. Gracias from Mexico
This is why I like You-Tube. Been soldering for many years, yet I still learned something today, Nice camera work too. Thank you.
+BlueRidgeMarine Thank you for the good words.
Thank you for a clear no nonsense or bad music, or sexy presentation of good information.
Bernard
Thank you for noticing! ;)
Thanks for the video!
It is so cool that after soldering for years, then not soldering for years, I can find such a good video in 2 minutes. Brushed up on the usual plus learned new stuff, can't beat it.
Man, it is so nice to see someone out there who knows how to solder, millions out there need to watch this ;)
Great tips! Thanks!
Unfortunately, it never ceases to amaze me how someone, like you, goes to considerable tima, trouble and probably expense to setup, record, narrate, upload and ultimately share some valuable experience you've learned over the years only to have 1 or 2 so-called "experts" (legends in their own minds) who've done none of the above criticize your effort with hurtful commenrs. RUclips is overrun with these trolls who get some thrill out of putting down other people. So please disregard the negativity from those assholes.
This was a terrific, extremely helpful tutorial for me. Thanks again.
I`ve been soldering for around 20 years now and I still learned something here :)
Thumbs up ;)
you are 47
LoL, no..
You`re off by 11 years bud ;)
jan christian Frodahl damn
Maybe I should change my profile pic :p
jan christian Frodahl xD
Great job. 40 yrs of oxy/acetylene and Tig experience here and still struggle with solder with an iron. Stumbled across this looking for a clean way to insulate a branch on a wire harness with shrink wrap or expandable loom.
Thank you. Been soldering for 54 years now. ;)
Excellent video... Still trying to find an efficient way to solder 10awg wire (used on marine trolling motor) together, to where the solder soaks all the way through. Got the soldering iron set to 750, using the largest tip I can get for that iron, and generous with the flux. The one thing I DIDN'T do was flux all the strands before "pushing" them together, nor did I use a piece of wire to hold it all in place, which from some of the videos I've seen looks like it may help distribute the heat around the joint helping the solder soak better. These videos are very helpful! So, thank you for taking the time 👍
Thank you for the kind words. 10 AWG should not be a big problem to solder. There are 2 "secrets" to soldering. 1) the work piece must be clean, bright fresh copper. Really clean. NO oxide. NO oils (from fingers, etc). 2) You must have adequate heat. Everything else is a "nice to have." And NEVER use acid flux on copper wiring. It will soak down into the insulation and keep eating away at the copper until it breaks. (I made this mistake, tried to clean out the flux over years, and still lost the battle. The stuff is cancerous.) So first, clean copper. Second, mechanically secure the connection. I have wrapped connections, but only when they are dodgy and I had no choice (emergecy boat wiring repair), not for heat dissipation. I have secured pig tail joints with a solderable crimp connector, but that was for mechanical strength. Third, apply flux if needed. Fourth, apply heat. Solder should melt at least 3 or 4 millimeters from the tip of the soldering iron (without having to touch the soldering iron). Finer solder costs more, but is easier to work with.
@@tsbrownie WOW...what an amazing reply. Thank you so much. Do you by any chance have an e-mail address you're ok to share on here? I'd like to send you a couple pics of exactly what I'm working with. I find something (off of a sheer hunch) that I think will answer a lot of questions and want to see your thoughts on it. As I stated before it's 10awg wire, but all the "bare" wire, when stripped is silver. I'm wondering if that's why the solder wasn't soaking through. I was able to scrape off that silver coating to get what looked like bare copper, but can't imagine doing that with all that wire, especially given how easy the individual strands can be. I honestly have no idea if the flux is "acid" or not, I didn't see the word acid anywhere, I just know it's MG Chemicals "no clean", and I'm using 63/37 almost religiously, and I upped the heat to 800. I purchased the widest tips I could, as well. I'm going to test the motor over the next couple of days to see if what I did actually worked. If it does, then the only thing I need to do is clean up the solder job which looks like typical newbie, gloopy sh!t. BUT........if that's the only part I got wrong, then I'll consider it a success, given how involved the repair was in the first place. It will then just be a matter of re-soldering the joint till I get it "proper".
*I can't thank you enough for such a great reply. Let me know on that e-mail, or if you have a business site you can directly me to outside of RUclips. I'd like to stay in touch on this project till I'm satisfied it's done at a reasonable level.* Hope you had a very Merry Christmas, and if we don't talk, are able to bring in the New Year in a happy healthy, safe manner. 🙏
@@phillamoore157 From the MG website "This tacky no-clean flux paste uses a mix of rosin, thickener, and high-grade synthetically refined resin." So it should be OK. If the solder is "gloopy", it sounds like it's not getting hot enough, but that's just a guess. Also, a big tip on the soldering iron/gun may be an issue: too much mass to heat up. I'm not a pro, just been doing it for 61 years and had some training.
I can't accept emails, especially with attachments; if you saw the dozens of daily account hacks I'm subject to, you'd understand why. Thank you for the Merry Christmas and New Year's wishes, my best to you and yours also!
To be honest; It this has cost me two hour lifetime to find a sensible video finally all my questions on the cable solder to a satisfactory result led! Many thanks for it!
I am glad you liked it. I started soldering when I was 6, I'm now 62. Taken courses along the way and done lots of soldering, so it has taken me a long time to learn!
A lot of good knowledge , I would add that after you wrap one wire around another wire squeeze them together with vise grips or a simular clamping tool , then solder.
Thanks for sharing the video
Nice to see someone demonstrating good soldering practices on RUclips. I have worked in TV and radio engineering and industrial electronics just about all my life and it drives me nuts to see how some people solder. I did a NASA soldering corse years ago and it stuck with me.
Well thank you. I was not lucky enough to learn from NASA. I learned at the end of a fist; I was my older brother's slave and got it right or got hit. ;(
I worked in a TV repair shop when i was 16 answering the phone and selling TVs and radios and keeping the store clean. I got beat with a broom just about every day if i did not sweep the floor correctly so I know what you are talking about learning at the end of a fist. Your brother sounds like my older brother who beat on me quite often.
Yes, the good thing is that what does not kill us makes us stronger.
first, when soldering you must make a good mechanical connection, he has done that. 2nd, I see no cold solder joint. 3rd He is talking mostly about making automotive and marine connections. Solder is not a glue as some You Tubers seem to think it is. I have seen countless examples of horrendous soldering tutorials on RUclips this is not one of them. Might I suggest if you are such an authority on soldering practices that you post a video on the subject so we all can benefit from your soldering repertoire.
Thanks for your comment. I looked up that guy's youtube page, just a bunch of song lists. He's a troll. I run a clean establishment ;). I don't mind criticism, but I frown on people like him swearing, attacking others personally and trolling in general. I deleted his comment. If he comes back I will block him.
Great work and explanations. Really clean joints and never thought of wrapping wire around two bad/compromised joints. Nothing like age and wisdom that's in short supply these days .
Thanks for posting.
Thank you!
great video. I agree with pretty much everything you said. The only exception being the t-splice. I would never do it that way mainly because taping it or heat shrinking it becomes complicated. I would simply do a 2-1 one joint, slide a pice of heat shrink over all three wires and then a larger piece over the entire thing.
I was looking at basic soldering techniques and came across this video.
This is excellent. Thanks so much for making this.
Thank you, glad you found it useful.
Got my first iron today and I've soldered everything except the cat ;) pre fixing the connection by wrapping it in fine wire is a win, really makes a neat job, cheers. Now for the 2 wobbly usb ports.....
It's quite a long time since I first learned these things in school -- decades. Thank you for using your materials and for the demonstrations. Nice work!
Thank you. Very kind words. Comments like yours make it worthwhile doing.
Great Tutorial, I took up electronics in High School, this lesson brings back some techniques I've completely forgot. Thanks for a great video.
You are most welcome and thank you for the kind words.
The tube butt splice was a great demonstration of how solder flows towards the heat source. Thanks!
I remember learning all of those splices, and our soldering lessons, in Vo-Ed, back in 1982-83. The field splice is a tricky one, as you have to tie a double loop knot in the wire. The Western Union is the one I use most, even today.
craxd1 same here 86-87
Thank you ! I too, have been soldering for 30+ years, mostly Automotive 12V wiring/harnesses/systems. Cars, Trucks & Harleys. I'm OCD when it comes to wiring connections & soldered joints ! Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! That's a good thing. I love it though. And I've learned a few nice tricks here as well ! Very good job tsbrownie, and thank you so much for taking your time & sharing your knowledge ! It will be put to very-good use on my end, fer sure !
Thanks for the comment and all the good words! Glad you found it useful.
Reminencent of the old Field Wireman course at Fort LeonardWood Mo back in 1970 but we did"t use solder as we were in the "field" and most of the time didn't have access to solder or irons. We made some very strong splices in the old field wire with it's multi construction of steel and copper wires. Interesting none-the less, and very usefull now that I am getting into the HAM scene.
Thanks. A lot of good info. For the last spice I personally would include two smaller heat shrink before I solder the two splices and then a bigger one over both splices. I just like the better insulation of double heat shrink.
You know your stuff man. It was nice to see the types of connections you can solder with and the benefits of them.
Thank you.
13:23 "this is a tremendously strong joint"
This video is a goldmine for hip-hop samples
Hip-hop samples?
@@samnassgood thinking batman, but obviously if you have a soldering iron then use it, solder won't corrode as bad as the copper 😂
I got it. This comment is solid gold lol
@@samnass but soldering was the whole point of the video no?
lol forget the strong joint and that will shatter your reality
This is the best soldering video to watch and learn by. Thankyou very much mate.
Thanks for taking the time to post this-turns out I didnt know nearly as much about soldering as I thought I did! 👍
Very welcome.
Practical, no fuss description. Thank you.
Great video! Sometimes it helps to drink a few shots before soldering thin wires, it helps with the shakeing. :-)
I've also learned that IF the soldered area breaks loose, you should form the wire ends like hooks before you solder them together. So you have the physical strength to hold the wires together, just in case the soldering breaks.
Even though it looks like your method also will have strength if it breaks.
Very great video though! I've never heard of the silicone before, but I'll consider trying it :)
Thank you. Making hooks works, as does twisting. A good mechanical connection is always recommended. The joints I did with the bigger wires will hold my 88 kilos of weight. If a joint breaks it means it was "cold" or not done correctly (or may have overheated and melted).
Great video … I actually learnt the names of some of the methods I’ve been using
Good sense, nice, simply and clearly shown. Thank you. I wish we could prrsuade our buddies over the pond that "Solder" has an "L" in it ! ;)
When I was working at a company producing power electronic components for the Japanese market we conducted a lot of tests on how to achieve the strongest joints when splicing wires together. We worked in a team for about a year and a half trying out different soldering and cold welding techniques to see which one should end up in production. But, in clinical testing including corrosion, water, conductivity and pull testing conclusively it turned out that a correctly crimped butt splice without solder was (although very contradictory to our preconception) the strongest joint for our application. I should point out that it took high quality components and a specific typ of hydraulic crimping tool that had to crimp the splices at an exact point on the butt splice to achieve this result (which works fine if you're, say, a robot who can repeat the exact operation a million times without error). Yet in the face of all that produced evidence, I still hold a firm belief in just soldering the damn thing... it just makes so much more sense!
Very helpful
In the hvac trades for years and do some electric too. Never saw that Western Union splice. Very cool!
The last tip i found to be the best one, ive only recently started some soldering at home and i've spliced both wires at the same point like a right donut.
Nicely done, very good how to solder properly. I know how yet your video explained some things that I was not doing correctly. Thank you.
Glad it helped
Nice video! Very useful + interesting + great tone , perfect level, clear voice!!! Excellent!
Thank you kindly!
I have to solder connectors onto video coax cables used underwater that sometimes get water intrusion and corrode the shield or core. That trick for corroded with is a really good idea. I'll be using that one for sure. Thanks.
Thank you so much you have officially revived my interest in electronics.
Thank you for that.
Thanks for the video. Helps alot. Just received a de-soldering tool, and proper flux. Using your information and proper tools should help.
A varietion of the tube- with- hole method is to make a coil of smaller single strand wire around a drill bit that is the same size as the wire to be soldered and long enough to cover both bare wire ends, slip ends in each end of "wire tube" and solder. Makes a very nice connection. And can be used when little or no extra wire is available to twist together.
Thank you for this informative and helpful video. Enjoyed watching and def. learned somethings. I am in the process of wiring a CB to my car and this information will help a lot. I did wire a simple electric guitar once, P90 pickup and one volume one tone pot and I wish I knew these soldering tips at the time. Although the guitar functioned OK, the wiring cavity was not something I was in a hurry to show off!
Interesting. I always thought those butt splice thingies were crimped on. thanks so much for this video. So many hobbyists don't really know how to solder. I was fortunate to have both parents in the electronics field.
They do make crimp on types of course and they are more popular. These also can be crimped and soldered, in fact I would prefer that. Having a mechanical connection in addition is always best when soldering. One benefit of soldering a crimped connection is it ensures that corrosion / dissimilar metal reactions are greatly reduced - important in humid / wet / marine environments.
Thanks for the great video. The problems you had with the butt splice tube would have been reduced by applying the heat from underneath the tube and the solder from above. That way heat is allowed to propagate up into the joint while drawing the solder down into the tube. I think if you applied the heat from underneath your splices you would get generally better results. That having been said clearly you are very good at soldering and again thanks for the video.
Thanks, good suggestion. I'll bet you are right. Will try that next time.
Beautiful work
Thanks for a great video. great way to explain soldering.
This is an excellent video. Thank you for the great information.
Glad it was helpful!
useful to see you work - in some circumstances I would have pre - tinned the opposite ends of the wires or the larger part to reduce the heat loss down multiple wires then the final heat requirement when joined is reduced....
Thanks. Yes, I do pre-tinning too if the pieces are big, or I want to avoid heat damage or if there's a lot of stuff and I want to do it assembly line style quickly, ...
Thx u. This was like an online soldering class
You are very welcome.
I love these techniques ! I work on vintage radios and its nice to know some good soldering techniques (: awesome video!
Thank You!
@@tsbrownie Absolutely!
On a house, it would have to be done inside an electrical box and well insulated. The wire nuts usually used are referred to as solderless connectors. In the old days, they soldered their joints and wrapped them in tape sometimes with no box. If the cable is somehow energized beyond its capacity by lightning or a power line incident, the box contains any sparks that may fly at the point of higher resistance.
Very well done and helpful - Thanks
Very informative, nice camera work. I just got one thing to add, when you solder multi strand wires, they become stiff. To avoid the joint to brake due to shakes (in any vehichle) strap the joint close to exsisting wire to keep it steady, beeing supported)
Fine work not too much solder, the strands should be as yours, visible.
(I learned my soldering when I was with the Danish Airforce - things we soldered had to be as good or better than the original)
Thank you . Yes good point. I did not go into strain relief and fastening. Maybe a video for another day. I like Denmark: been there a couple times. Beautiful country and great people.
Thanks bro you just taught me a nice tip on that I can stop having to pigtail wire everything
Glad I could help.
A further improvement to the 3-way with multistrand is to untwist the wire you are attaching to, put the other wire through, retwist, wrap the attaching wire, and solder.
There’s a lot of vaiations possible with it, including ones for one of the wires being solid.
number 2: "basket weave" splice. Number 3, "NASA" splice (min. 3 turns @), Number 4: "butt" splice (typically crimped+ soldered)...
modification of number 5: "military splice": form an "eye" in the strands of first wire (as with the eye of a needle)
TIP: leave some insulation on the end of the second wire (to simplify "threading" the eye... wrap as above (removing remaining insulation end) wrap (collapsing "eye") solder and insulate.
Fun soldering totally agree You work the same as me on solder joints.
- When soldering audio male connectors ex. RCA (phono) or headphones, put a female connector on the end, it will help hold the center pin in a perfect middle position. This applies for both male and female connectors of any type where the plastic will tend to become so soft that the center axe ends up with an angle.
- Best cutters for small size wires under $5 = Nail cutters. Try to find a straight one without a curvature. Does an impeccable cut and will last you for years.
Good tips, thank you.
thank you for posting this, it was a huge help!
That third splice was the one we used on phone wires in Korea. Of course we didn't solder but if there was time we would tape the splice. Some of our phone wire had been broken and spliced so many times that we could only get communication on it for 2 miles instead of the rated 12 miles.
Very interesting video thanks
Love the mesh splice! I love using silicone tinned copper wire with a jet-lighter, takes some practice but really rewarding and by far the fastest way w/o a hot iron
Excellent lecture
THANK YOU!
apparently I have been doing this all wrong lol very informative 👍
Staggering the joints is a great idea. Thanx mate.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to do it
Thank you!
Excellent tutorial - thank you for posting.
Thank you.
You are welcome - looking forward to more of your vids/tutorials in the future.
you have very many years using solder :) your experience really shows, beautiful solder joints
+topher Thank you!
+tsbrownie I just did some ugly stuff that should remain under heatshrink where nobody will ever see it on my tricopter haha :D
lol!
Great information, thanks for taking the time to make an easy to understand video. Learned some new things today!
On a three way, unroll the wire, stick the wires threw the main wire and twist up and down. Super strong, minimal bump and no knot!
Great upload..... I never really understand how people say, "Oh I can't soldier, i don't get it and just can't do it"
I always think to myself, it's not rocket science, how han you not know how to heat copper wire and then add soldier....... but your joints are really good, i will definitly be mucking round with these joints tomorrow.... thanks bloke....
My pleasure. The secret (#1) is a clean work piece.
+tsbrownie Thank you for the great video. I just got my first soldering iron and am going to be doing some work wiring LED lights for my deck railing, and feel way more confident after watching your video. I of course will do a few practice solder connections first. Great camera work as well!!
Thank you. Be sure to use proper safety precautions. Wear eye protection. Pick up any splashed solder to keep away from kids and pets. Never work on connected wiring, etc. Have fun!
I have to be honest, Ive been soldering over 20 yrs, TH, SMD, you name it (IPC Cert) etc blah blah, but, I picked up a couple of tips from your video! Job well done, thx! ps I know what you mean when you say badly coroded wire! Ive seen copper that has turned black, and the product manufacturer *still let it pass..(scary)
+Scott x Thank you.
+Scott x I wish I saw this video before I repaired my ABS wire on my car. The wires insulation was damaged and the wires were black like you mentioned! I did my best repairing the wire but feel that I could have done better. Overall my ABS light went away on my car 8)
Omar is Rad
If the light went away, you did it! I remember a Simpsons episode where Homer saw a light pop up on the dashboard and he covered it with tape. Gotta love Homer, DOH!
Flux will remove very light corrosion, but it's best to clean the wire mechanically first to remove significant corrosion.
now this sure looks like a pro! great explanations!
Obrigado pelos ensinamentos e conhecimento que nos transmitiu.
Thanks for teaching and knowledge gave us.
You are welcome. Você é bem vindo!
Nice, thanks :-) By the way:
Some times I need to connect cables and got no soldering iron. Before twisting them together like shown in the very first example I seperate the cable into maybe 4 parts each cable. Then I twist the first with the first, the second with the second etc and now got 2 cables with fout twisted ends. At last I make a worm out of those four ends like shown. This connection is not easy to destroy by pulling the cables.
Wenn ich zwei Kabel verbinden möchte und die Verbindung einer gewissen Zugbelastung standhalten soll aber kein Lot habe, dann spleisse ich die Enden in 4 Teile auf und verdrille zunächst die vier Enden des einen Kabels mit denen des anderen Kabels, bevor ich alle 4 umeinander drehe.
Vielan dank! I would think that the better intertwined (more surface area contact) the better the electrical conduction. And it would likely help with mechanical strength as well.
great video and soldering -
am surprised at the glop many construction videos show
Thank you!
I practiced making the staggering 'splice' connections a lot of time for electronics as to avoid short-circuits because it is very damaging to components. (13:43)
Tight and neat, good demonstration of the basics.
thanks for the great tips
Glad you found it useful.
Some good tricks in this video, thanks.
Great video. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Nice video framed well nice and simply explained .
Nice tutorial and good solderings. One of the best soldering guides. You could invest to a more professional soldering iron. It looks that the tip temperatures were too cold and increasing it would shorten the soldering time.
Thanks for sharing from Philippines
Excellent info. Thanks for the great video. Much appreciated.
Thank you, glad you liked it.
Nice work!!!👍
Excellent information.
If your into RC it's amazing what you can make yourself dirt cheap.
Thanks mate for sharing! Good tips and advice.
Thank you.
Un video genial. Muchas gracias.
He reminds me to the voice in "impossible mission" for the c64 - an other subscriber, stream a while, stream forever! 😅
Really great video 👍
Thank you.