Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Soldering Tips

At a recent Vienna Wireless meeting, Ron (WA6YOU) gave an excellent presentation on the right way to solder and the right tools required to do so.

Here are some of the most interesting points that I wrote down:
  • flick the iron and solder after finishing soldering a piece
  • always keep the iron tinned. This also implies that before turning the iron off, tin it!
  • to use a solder wick, put some solder in the centre just before the end of the wick. Maybe add some rosin too.
  • use a brush dipped in alcohol to clean the rosin at the very end

The presentation was real good. And the equipment he had was wonderful!



For solder irons, he recommended Edsyn Loner (model 951SX)


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