Posted by Oak Dale on December 18, 2008 at 11:46:03 from (76.79.44.52):
In Reply to: Soldering advice posted by DRC on December 18, 2008 at 08:45:40:
I'm in 100% agreement with everybody: The metal must be absolutely CLEAN before you try anything else.
I'm an old retired 'shop' teacher, and I've taught many folks how to solder. Here is my advice for you on this one. Since you haven't soldered much before, practice on some scrap first! There is a 'trick' to soldering. You have to learn to get the metal hot enough, but not too hot. The old timers say you have to learn to see the solder 'sweat'. I agree. You can only learn to see this by practicing. If the metal is too cold, the solder will just ball up and laugh at you. If you try being a heat bully, the solder will ball up and laugh at you. When it is just the right heat, the solder will 'sweat' or get shinny, and flow out on your nice CLEAN fluxed surface and 'tin' it with a nice thin layer of solder. A little brass brush can be a real help to get the tinning solder to go where you want it and to get stubborn spots to 'take.' Once the two metal surfaces are 'tinned' they can be joined together much easier than if you try to tin and join all at once. Any experienced solderer can do this, but it is just so much easier to tin and join in two steps.
Whatever you do, try it! The guys are right - keep the rest of the core cool so you don't melt away anything good. But go for it. Once you learn how, you'll be rewarded with lots of opportunities to use the skill. And, it is fun to do.
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