Soldering

[Little City]

I was wondering if there are any websites out there that tell you the ins and outs of soldering. I'd quite like to learn how to do it.

Cheers

[summoner21]

Originally posted by Little City
I was wondering if there are any websites out there that tell you the ins and outs of soldering. I'd quite like to learn how to do it.

Cheers http://www.kingbass.com/soldering101.html

[Chubba]

Has anybody tried that cold heat soldering gun from the infomercial? I was curious if that worked very well.

[whoresays]

Originally posted by summoner21
http://www.kingbass.com/soldering101.html

That's a good tutorial. I wish I'd had that when I was learning to solder the hard way.

[bucky]

Originally posted by Chubba
Has anybody tried that cold heat soldering gun from the infomercial? I was curious if that worked very well.

Ive got one on order. They're really backordered though.

[SHAKEnBAKE]

Originally posted by whoresays
That's a good tutorial. I wish I'd had that when I was learning to solder the hard way.

I just realized I did my guitar the wrong way. I'm thinking of re-wiring it.

[Little City]

Cheers that was a really helpful site.

[cormac]

here's another tutorial from guitarnuts msg brd

http://www.guitarnuts.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1719

and another from muzique.com andit has very good and very specific info on what type of solder to use, etc

http://www.muzique.com/schem/solder.txt

i'm prepping to do my first diy stomper -- any other advice or comments on soldering plz fire away :)

and thanks for the kingbase link -- i hadn't seen that one :)

[cormac]

here's another link with more links :D -- just found these

http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/index2.html

[drashi]

Originally posted by Chubba
Has anybody tried that cold heat soldering gun from the infomercial? I was curious if that worked very well.

yea. i would like to know if any of you have used the cold heat gun as well.

[olddawg]

Those cold solder irons do not work. They're cheap crap for TV sales. If you want to go cheap get a $5 pencil iron. If you want to do it right get a Weller or a Hako bench pencil iron with temperature control, regulation and isolation. The best thing you can do is practice on junk electronics.

[jaycrimson]

The cold solder irons aren't worth your time. I have one lying around the shop collecting dust. They don't get hot enough to do any soldering on the back of pots, and they take forever to heat up a terminal enough for the solder to flow properly. On top of that, the tips break very easily.

[Aphoniser]

So long as you get one with a small tip.

I spent the better part of a high school electronics course blowing up LED's with a 12v transformer. Also DIY'ing a univox superfuzz which never worked.