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Introduction

1:07

Equipment Requirements

4:38

Temperature

5:21

Solder and Flux

8:25

Solder Types

14:57

Maintenance

16:02

Heat Shrink

16:27

What is Heat Shrink

16:42

Join a Wire

17:27

Soldering Holders

17:42

Circuit Boards

17:57

Clean Wire

18:27

Wire Stripper

18:57

Joining Wires

19:47

Solder Flux

20:27

Hot Wire

24:47

Joining

25:37

Applying Heat Shrink

26:47

Sealing the Wire

27:37

Soldering on a Board

27:57

Bending Resistor Pins

28:57

Soldering Wires

30:42

Clean Soldering

32:22

Conclusion

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this is a beginner's guide to soldering

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electronics so if you are thinking about

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giving soldering a try or if you've had

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a go at it and you're not very happy

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with the results you're getting then

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this video is for you I'm gonna be going

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over all the equipment that you're going

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to need such as soldering iron solder

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and flux and the important roles of all

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of these items I'm also going to be

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going through some soldering techniques

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to ensure that you get neat clean joints

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every time I think I want to mention is

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the pronunciation of the words solder

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some parts of the world say solder some

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parts of the world say solder there is

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an argument to be made for each of those

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pronunciations based on the word

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etymology but at the end of the day as

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long as we all know we're talking about

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the same thing it doesn't really matter

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a basic principle of any kind of

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soldering is Dabangg two things together

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using solder as the glue that soldering

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electronics has the added requirement

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that that join needs to be electrically

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conductive so looking at the equipment

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requirements are you going to need a

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soldering iron now they come in a

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variety of different shapes and sizes

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and prices you can get ones for just a

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few dollars and you can spend thousands

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on a soldering iron the cheaper type

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generally have the mains power cable

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coming right out the back of the

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soldering iron they generally don't have

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any sort of temperature control and if

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you're lucky with those cheap ones you

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might have a replaceable tip the next

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step up from those is to go with a

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soldering station which generally has a

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base station with a temperature control

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and then the iron is connected to that

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base station and soldering stations

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usually have replaceable tips as well

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and some of the better ones you might

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have a reasonable range of different

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types of tips as well my recommendation

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for for this sort of work is to go with

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a soldering station I mean they're a

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little bit more expensive than the basic

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soldering IDE but you can get them for

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quite cheap and it's much better to have

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that that temperature control on the

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soldering station and as I say you

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generally you've probably going to end

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up with of you know better quality and finer

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tips on a on a soldering station as well

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now I use a hakko fx-888 retail for

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around about five hundred dollars here

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in Australia but I'm pretty sure you can

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get them for under 300 in the US they

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have the absolute worst interface but

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the thing I really like about them is

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that you can actually remove the tips in

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the middle of soldering so if we have a

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look here I can actually lift that out

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and remove that tip even when it's hot

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the difference with this soldering

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station is that the whole tip is the

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actual heater whereas some of the

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cheaper soldering stations the heater is

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in the handle and then you just have a

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small bit of you have the tip which just

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sits in the top of that heater and the

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the heater transfers the heat to that

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tip now because these actually have the

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heater in the tip itself that's been

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much more effective heat transfer but

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it's only this end bit that gets hot the

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base stays cool and so you can't

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actually swap these out while you're in

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the middle of a soldering job and and I

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generally use use only sort of three

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tips when I'm soldering and they're just

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three different sizes of beveled edge

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tip and I generally don't really like

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the conical tips which is that pointed

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put the pointed type which is a shame

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because most soldering stations come

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with a conical tip as standard and some

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of them only have the option for a

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conical tip there's no bevel tips even

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available for them

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so this is one of the things I really

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like about the the HECO station there

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are a huge range of tips available now

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even though the hakko is the soldering

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station I use everyday I'm not going to

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be using it for this demonstration I am

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going to be using this POS soldering

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station that I picked up from my local

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electronics retailer for 2995 and the

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reason I'm going to be using this is

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because I want to demonstrate that it is

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more about technique than it is about

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the equipment that you're using

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now I've never used this soldering

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station before in fact I've never even

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taken out of the box so it could be very

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interesting so when it comes to the

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temperature I use for my soldering

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station I generally set it at around

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about 400 degrees Celsius which is about

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750 degrees Fahrenheit

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now the melting point of leaded solder

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is about 180 degrees Celsius so 400

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might seem a little bit high but the

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thing is that I'm not just looking to

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melt the solder I'm wanting to be able

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to transfer the heat from the soldering

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on to whatever it is that I'm soldering

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so that's why I have that temperature a

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bit higher if I was working with

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lead-free solder I'd probably be looking

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at about 450 degrees C or 850 degrees

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Fahrenheit I'm not super fussy about it

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near enough is good enough for me okay

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so I've got my little soldering station

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all set up isn't it cute it's got a tiny

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weeny little tip on the end of it we'll

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see how it all goes so the next thing

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I'm going to do is go over solder and

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flux and the relationship between the

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two so I'm just going to flick over to

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the microscope here and if we look

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through here I've got a piece of solder

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here this is from a just a roll of solar

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and and if you have a look here if I

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just grab a scalpel and ice this through

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the middle you'll see when we open it up

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that inside

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there it's gonna zoom in on that a

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little there is a little channel of flux

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inside there and so there is actually

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flux inside this solder that's the flux

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there and that just got it gives you an

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indication of just how important flux is

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in the process of soldering the fact

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that the solder actually has flux in it

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now the purpose of flux is basically to

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help with the with stopping the

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oxidization process or oxidation process

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depending on which part of the world

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you're from is how you pronounce it so

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any sort of medal I mean you'd be

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familiar with obviously when metal rusts

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that's the process of that oxidizing and

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solder oxidizes as well and I can

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actually demonstrate that here I'm going

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to grab my soldering iron and I'm going

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to just let me zoom out here a bit I'm

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going to melt some solder on to the iron

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just like this okay so there's a nice

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shiny metallic blob of solder there it

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is there now we let that sit I was going

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to grab a pair of tweezers here longer

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we let that sit it will start to get

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this conic crust on the outside you can

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see there's a bit of a film as we move

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it around it's sort of you can see all

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these we're getting all these really

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ugly shapes on top of it at the moment

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here and this is all part of that

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process of oxidizing as the oxygen

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reacts with that metal you start to get

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this film on the outside then all of a

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sudden that solder is very hard to work

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with it's not going to do what you want

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because in order for solder to adhere to

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whatever you're wanting to solder the

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both surfaces need to be you know really

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really clean

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and and that includes sort of making

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sure they're not oxidized so flux

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basically helps yeah in that in that

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process by stopping the oxidization of

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that metal on the soldering iron or on

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whatever you're soldering to sort of

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that solder will then adhere much easier

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now I'm going to get back to that a

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little bit in a little moment because

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I'm just going to demonstrate that for

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that process to you but I just want to

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talk about solders and flux so this here

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either the solders basically come in two

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different varieties and that's Leonard

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and lead-free now this is actually a

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leaded solder it's 60% 10 and 40% lead

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obviously as we know lead is a very

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poisonous substance so it's better to

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what to not actually have lead now

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having said that the leaded solder has a

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slightly lower melting temperature so it

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can actually be a little bit easier to

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work with and that's one of the reasons

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why I do tend to work with leaded solder

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though I am trying to win myself off it

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so if you are going to be using leaded

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solder it's very important that you have

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lots of really good ventilation I've got

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a little sort of air filter it's it's

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not the best sort of air filter it's

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better than nothing but one of the

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things I tend to do is what I'm working

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I've got a fan here behind me and I just

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switched that on

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so there's here blowing from behind me

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and it's just you know blowing any of

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those fumes away from me this workshop

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that I'm in has actually got pretty good

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ventilation so so yes so just obviously

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keeping in mind that if you are going to

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be using leaded solar it is poisonous

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stuff if you're going to be using

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lead-free solder you have to keep in

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mind that it has a higher melting point

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so your soldering stations gonna need to

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I have a little bit more at a higher

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temperature in order to melt the solder

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so now the next thing is flux and again

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fluxes come in a couple of varieties as

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well they generally come in active and

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passive varieties active solid this is

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an active flux here this one is

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is called baker's soldering fluid and

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the reasons for it - as activities it is

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acidic it's it's corrosive and so it is

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actually taking a layer off the the

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metals that you're using when you're

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soldering but the downside is that if

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you don't clean this off it keeps

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corroding and so you if you're working

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with this with electronics you can come

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back you know a week later and find that

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it's eaten through all of the wires and

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then you know sort of and then it's not

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gonna be good at all so I would i would

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recommend staying away from this for

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electronics once upon a time I didn't

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realize that anything but this existed

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and this is all I used but there are

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lots and lots of different types of flux

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out there so another thought you might

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find is something like this which is a

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rosin flux and this is a passive flux

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and what that means is it's not

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corrosive in the same way that that that

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the active is and so you you if you

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leave it on whatever you're soldering

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it's not going to eat through the

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components it's still not bad

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not a bad idea to clean this stuff off

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after using it and of course again this

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stuff like all other things in this

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hobby is poisonous so just you know

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you've got to be careful make sure you

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wash your hands or use protection or

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whatever other different types of sold

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of flux you've got this is one that I

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use regularly it's Ametek NC 5 v 9 v 2

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TF and it is another of the passive type

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fluxes and it's a gel and again this is

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one that you don't actually have to

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clean off after using it's not you know

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sort of a non corrosive and I say this

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is the one that I prefer to use but it's

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a little bit more expensive so what I'm

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going to do now is I'm going to grab

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just a little breadboard

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this is a breadboard here it's just sort

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of a board for sort of prototyping in

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electronics and if we have a look at it

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under the microscope

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you'll see that it is lots and lots and

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lots of little holes with little circles

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of little rings of copper

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and those rings of copper are for solder

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to adhere to now what I'm going to just

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demonstrate here I'm gonna just grab a

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great big blob of solder bigger is I

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gonna carry on this little soldering on

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something like that and then I am going

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to run it across some of these holes

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here now what you can see is that that

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solder is kind of congealing it's not

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flowing particularly well and we're you

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know ending up with this pretty

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revolting sort of shape and you might

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think well why on earth you're doing

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that anyway well I want to show you the

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difference of doing this when we're

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using some flux so I'm now going to grab

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some flux

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I'm gonna grab move up to a nice clean

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set of holes here yeah and I'm gonna put

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a great big mess a mess of this flux on

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these holes heaps in hopes and hopes and

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the reason I'm using so much is because

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I do want to demonstrate this point I'm

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now gonna grab there's a wrong sobbing

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I'm sorry I'm gonna grab a whole stack

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of solder like this onto the end of the

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soldering iron and I'm now going to do

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the same thing I did last time I'm gonna

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run them across here and what you can

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see you can see what happens here when

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I'm using that flux we've ended up with

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a row of really nice neat little blobs

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rather than this kind of smeary mess

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that I ended up with before and

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obviously those blobs are much neater

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and tidier now I'm not necessarily

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saying that you do what I just did using

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loads and loads and loads of flux and

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nothing else but it does demonstrate to

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you what a difference it makes when

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using flux when you're soldering because

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of the way it halts that oxidization and

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helps that you know that solder flow and

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form into nice little you know nice

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little blobs rather than sort of some

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big streaky mess

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alright so the next thing I want to talk

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about ears are the maintenance of your

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soldering iron and the main thing is to

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make sure the tip is kept clean now some

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people use sponges with water but what I

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would recommend is something like this

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it's it's a little sort of little

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container that's filled with like a

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steel wool and you basically get your

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soldering iron tip and you just stab it

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into that little mesh of of metal and

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that will clean that tip off or get rid

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of any excess solder and it will just

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keep that tip looking nice and clean so

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that's that's my recommendation is to

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use one of these you can actually get

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replacements for these when they get old

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and tatty you just whip that out chuck

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it in the bin and put a new one in so

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that's basically what I use for keeping

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my soldering iron tip clean and tidy the

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other thing I just wanted to mention

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quickly was something that I'm going to

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be using in this next bit which is heat

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shrink and heat shrink is basically just

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a tall choose of plastic that they come

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in a range of different sizes and colors

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and you you use this to seal up any

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joins that you might do so that you can

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you can if rather than leaving any sort

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of exposed joins when you're joining up

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wires the heat shrink covers that which

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means that the joins are going to last a

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lot longer

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this stuff you can just buy it

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electronic retailers you can buy this

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stuff on eBay super cheap and as I say

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and this is a box with just a whole a

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whole bunch of different sizes which has

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lasted me a very long time I have to say

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so what I'm going to do now is I'm

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actually going to join a wire together

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so this is a wire that has come and you

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know has been cut apart

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and I'm just going to jump across here

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to the to the microscope you can see

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it's a really really ugly cut that's

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happen here and we want to repair that

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and join them together now for what I'm

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going to be doing here I'm going to be

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using one of these which is a little

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articulated holder that bends around and

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has ittle alligator clips on it that

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allow you to you know hold your whatever

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you're working with in in a nice steady

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position because often often when you're

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soldering you've got one hand on the on

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the soldering iron you've got one hand

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on your solder and then you run out of

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hands for holding what it is you

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actually want to work on so that's where

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things like these these holders come in

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handy you can also have if you're

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working on circuit boards they're also

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things like this like a little

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rotisserie that allow you to put the

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board inside and then you can stand it

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on there and you can spin the board

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around for working on it and hold it all

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nice and still so they're quite handy as

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well that is depending on the work that

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you're you're going to be doing so the

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first thing I'm going to do with this

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this wire is I am going to clean up

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clean up these cuts because they are

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revolting so I'm just going to cut that

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in bit off and I get this one and I will

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cut that in bit off alright so now we've

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got two nice clean ends and then I'm

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going to be using a wire stripper like

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this one here just a really really basic

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one that just allows me to put this into

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the right sized hole that's a alike one

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there and then just strip the wire off

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so let me go there the wire strip there

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let's do the same for the other one

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strip that wire off

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okay yeah I'm just going to just give

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the the wire a bit of a twist like this

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so just holds those little little bits

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of why the little pieces of wire

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together there okay so now I want to

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join these two wires together now you

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might just say okay we'll put those two

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wires together and dump some solder on

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them that's generally not what I do when

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I'm when I'm soldering items like this

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what I like to do first is I like to get

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solder on the two things that I'm

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planning to join and then I melt them

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together so let's start off with that

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I'm gonna just put this wire into the

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holder and I am going to there we go

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nice and in focus I'm then going to get

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some solder on to this wire alright now

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here's one of the the most important

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parts of the technique and this is the

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mistake that a lot of people make when

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they're first starting out with

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soldiering and the mistake they make is

00:19:58

they melt the solder on to the tip and

00:20:00

then they try and transfer that solder

00:20:03

onto the wire that is absolutely not the

00:20:06

way to do it what you need to do and

00:20:09

this is this is where that flux that's

00:20:11

inside the solder is really important

00:20:13

because that flux that's inside a solder

00:20:15

only works at the time that it's melting

00:20:17

so once you melt it on to your tip that

00:20:19

fluxes it's done its thing and it's not

00:20:22

of no use to you anymore so you actually

00:20:24

need to make sure what that flux is

00:20:26

being used when the solder is melting so

00:20:29

what you need to do the correct

00:20:31

procedure is to use the soldering iron

00:20:34

to get the wire hot so this is you're

00:20:37

using the actual soldering iron to get

00:20:40

the wire hot rather than melting the

00:20:42

solder let me just clean this tip a

00:20:44

little bit it looks a little bit ugly

00:20:45

okay so I'm gonna put him on there and

00:20:48

then what you do is you use the solder

00:20:51

then melt the solder onto the wire not

00:20:55

onto the tip as you can see that burning

00:20:59

that smoke coming off that is actually

00:21:01

the flux and that's showing you that

00:21:03

that flux is doing its job and so as you

00:21:05

can see now that why

00:21:06

is completely coated with solder even if

00:21:09

it is a little bit out of focus it's

00:21:10

completely coated with solder and that's

00:21:12

ready for us to do a join so let's go

00:21:15

through and do that one again with the

00:21:17

other wire so let's grab this second

00:21:19

wire here and again just let's get that

00:21:26

little nice and in focus as best as we

00:21:28

can once again soldering on goes to the

00:21:32

wire gets the wire tries to get the

00:21:36

higher wire as hot as possible and then

00:21:38

melt the solder on to the wire there we

00:21:43

go and then any excess that you end up

00:21:45

with on the tip you just got to clean

00:21:47

that away with your with your little

00:21:50

love tip clean up Misha tip cleaner

00:21:54

there so now we've got two pieces of

00:21:57

wire that have both got solder on them

00:21:59

so the next thing I'm going to do now is

00:22:02

well actually they're ready for joining

00:22:05

but if we were this is just one piece of

00:22:08

this is a piece of wire that's not

00:22:10

attached to anything for the purpose of

00:22:11

this demonstration but imagine for a

00:22:12

second that it was attached to something

00:22:14

at each end so the next thing we would

00:22:16

do is we would prepare by getting our

00:22:18

heat shrink ready to go because once

00:22:21

it's joined if it's attached at both

00:22:23

ends you can't get that heat shrink on

00:22:25

so what we do is we grab a little bit of

00:22:27

heat shrink now get a size you want a

00:22:30

size that is as close to the thicknesses

00:22:33

of the wire as possible so if we just go

00:22:37

under here

00:22:38

so this one is quite good actually no

00:22:40

this one's a little bit look it's it's a

00:22:43

very snug fit this one I I think it

00:22:48

would probably be okay but I would

00:22:50

rather actually go with a size maybe one

00:22:52

size up from that just to make a little

00:22:55

bit easier for that to move around on

00:22:59

the wire so let's try this one so this

00:23:02

is an excise up and you can see that one

00:23:04

fits quite well there okay so I'm just

00:23:08

going to cut off a little bit of this I

00:23:10

don't need the whole thing that's all

00:23:12

bit too long I want a piece that is

00:23:15

about the length

00:23:17

of this join plus the same amount on

00:23:24

either side so that's the joins going to

00:23:27

be about that big and then so if we go

00:23:29

that same amount on either side I'm

00:23:32

probably going to be looking at I'd say

00:23:34

it doesn't have to be precise but I'm

00:23:36

gonna go with a length say about an inch

00:23:38

in length or about maybe sort of two and

00:23:41

a half three centimeters so there's a

00:23:45

piece of there's a little piece of a

00:23:48

good piece of heat shrink there and then

00:23:51

what you do is you slip that over one of

00:23:53

the pieces of what I doesn't matter

00:23:55

which one but you just got to make sure

00:23:56

you keep it reasonably far away from the

00:23:59

joint itself because when this wire gets

00:24:01

hot if it makes that heat shrink melt it

00:24:04

will shrink prematurely which we don't

00:24:06

want okay so I'm gonna now put the wire

00:24:10

just over said I'm gonna put the wire

00:24:13

into this holder I'm going to use both

00:24:15

sides of this holder of these alligator

00:24:17

clips so that I can hold both of these

00:24:20

in position for soldering now you may

00:24:27

sort of not want to use you know sort of

00:24:31

have both in the holder you might just

00:24:34

want one but for what I'm demonstrating

00:24:36

here I am going to put them both in the

00:24:38

holder I'll have to spin it around here

00:24:51

we have two wires ready for joining

00:24:54

they're both got some solder on them so

00:24:56

I don't really need any more solder but

00:25:01

if I wanted to I could just grab some

00:25:03

here at the same time to melt them and

00:25:05

then I've grabbed the wrong soldering

00:25:06

iron again let's try this one and then

00:25:09

we apply the heat to the area and then

00:25:12

just melt those two together there we go

00:25:16

look at that okay so obviously making

00:25:19

sure that it cools don't pull them apart

00:25:21

too early otherwise the the solder won't

00:25:24

is cooled but here you can see that

00:25:25

that's cooled and it's solidified and

00:25:27

we've now got a nice neat and tidy join

00:25:29

there and you'll find that that joint is

00:25:31

probably stronger than the wire itself

00:25:32

if I was to actually grab those and pull

00:25:34

them apart it would probably break

00:25:35

somewhere else before it broke at that

00:25:37

joint okay so the next thing to do is to

00:25:41

apply that heat shrink so I've got my

00:25:45

I've got my jaw in here let me just Pat

00:25:49

gotta join and then I've got the heat

00:25:52

shrink over the top now let's jump

00:25:55

across now I think it'll be easy to look

00:25:57

at this camera for this so that's the

00:26:00

join there and that's it there now when

00:26:04

it comes to shrinking the heat shrink

00:26:05

you can do it any number of ways I

00:26:07

sometimes use a hot air rework station

00:26:10

it blows out hot air or you can use a

00:26:12

hot air gun but you can just use a

00:26:14

little bit lighter if you want so if I

00:26:17

just grab this just gently run the heat

00:26:20

backwards and forwards over there you

00:26:22

can actually see that that is making

00:26:24

that shrink that heat shrink shrink down

00:26:27

it's also getting a whole stack of

00:26:29

Blackburn all over it because I'm using

00:26:31

a lighter it's not the cleanest way to

00:26:33

do it but it does work as I say I would

00:26:36

typically use a you know sort of a hot

00:26:38

air rework station and what that does is

00:26:42

that shrinks that heat shrink down to

00:26:44

size and then once it cools it then goes

00:26:47

hard and if we go back to our microscope

00:26:51

you could see that of

00:26:53

my lighters melted my wire a little bit

00:26:55

there but it the most important thing is

00:26:58

that is now sealed so that is you know

00:27:03

sort of a nice neat and tidy joint that

00:27:05

you can you can have in whatever you're

00:27:07

working with and that's not going to

00:27:09

come apart because it's all sealed up

00:27:11

it's not likely to ever corrode so so

00:27:16

that's that's basically that so that's

00:27:17

you know just sort of just demonstrating

00:27:19

doing a wire joining us say the most

00:27:21

important part with that is making sure

00:27:23

that you heat what you're wanting to

00:27:25

solder and then you melt the solder to

00:27:28

the component or to the part they are

00:27:30

soldering rather than onto the iron okay

00:27:34

so the next thing we're going to do is

00:27:36

I'm going to demonstrate soldering a

00:27:40

component onto a board and I'm going to

00:27:43

do that by just grabbing a little

00:27:46

nondescript resistor here

00:27:49

there we go this is a resistor this is

00:27:55

the board that I'm going to mount it on

00:27:56

to and so if we look at this you can see

00:27:59

of all the little holes here and let's

00:28:01

just say I was building an electronics

00:28:02

kit or something like that so I

00:28:04

basically been the bin the pins of the

00:28:08

resistor turn this off here so you can

00:28:11

bend the bend the pins of the resistor

00:28:13

here and then poke them through the

00:28:17

holes of the board like so okay so

00:28:22

that's the that's a resistor sitting in

00:28:25

the sitting on the board there and then

00:28:28

on this side I would generally grab you

00:28:31

know sort of a pair of pliers or

00:28:32

something like that and just gently not

00:28:34

hard but just gently grab this way pull

00:28:37

it a little bit and bend it and then

00:28:39

grab this side pull a little bit and

00:28:42

bend it those bends are now stopping it

00:28:45

from from falling out so that's going to

00:28:47

stay in place while we do the solder in

00:28:49

there

00:28:50

little why's that have bent there so

00:28:53

let's jump back now to the microscope

00:28:56

and we will have a look there's our

00:28:59

there's why number one and there's why

00:29:04

number two and I am now going to just

00:29:07

solder these wires in place so we'll

00:29:10

start with this one grab my trusty

00:29:13

soldering iron and again applying the

00:29:18

heat to the components you want to

00:29:20

solder to and then melting onto those

00:29:25

components now this is really where I

00:29:28

was referring to the difference between

00:29:29

a conical tip and a and a beveled tip

00:29:34

now if I show you a bevel tip I'm going

00:29:37

to show you a great big bevel tip but

00:29:39

it's just for the purpose of

00:29:40

demonstrating so this is a bevel tip

00:29:42

here and you can see that you've got

00:29:44

this great big flat surface and what I

00:29:46

like about these is you can apply them

00:29:48

like this and apply a large surface area

00:29:52

of heat down onto any board that you

00:29:54

might be working with but with the the

00:29:57

fine point tip like this one you have

00:30:01

more trouble getting the heat where you

00:30:04

want it to go now what you could do is

00:30:07

you can maybe lie this down so you get a

00:30:08

little bit more surface area of the iron

00:30:11

on to what it is you're trying to solve

00:30:14

it to so anyhow I'm just going to hold

00:30:16

that there that's applying some heat to

00:30:19

the to the pad and to the wire and then

00:30:23

just going to grab this and melt and

00:30:26

melting on to the pad and on to the wire

00:30:30

and there we go and as you can see we've

00:30:32

got a lovely neat clean tidy little blob

00:30:36

going on there and then just a matter of

00:30:40

clipping the excess of that wire off so

00:30:44

that's that and there you have a lovely

00:30:47

clean solder joint going on there it's

00:30:51

just

00:30:52

I'm out all looking lovely neat and tidy

00:30:55

so let's do that again on on the other

00:30:57

end so we've got we've got the soldering

00:31:05

iron we hold that onto the the copper

00:31:10

pad and we're holding it onto the wire

00:31:12

as well to try and transfer heat to both

00:31:14

and then we just get the solar we melt

00:31:17

that it's melting onto the pad and

00:31:20

melting on to the pin as well so there

00:31:26

we go another lovely neat and tidy ball cut

00:31:34

off the excess there we go once again

00:31:37

another neat and tidy sort of ball there

00:31:40

now I've done that without any flux at

00:31:42

all other than the flux that was in the

00:31:44

solder so so what I would recommend with

00:31:48

that is you know sort of to probably use

00:31:50

things like a you know breadboard like

00:31:53

this to practice try and practice

00:31:55

getting nice blobs when you're soldering

00:32:00

like that and keep in mind that I'm

00:32:05

using a 29.95

00:32:07

soldering station here so it's not all

00:32:11

about having fancy equipment there we go

00:32:15

nice beautiful little blobs of solder

00:32:19

recommend a sort of practising

00:32:21

practising them so that's basically it

00:32:24

for this as a beginners gone I'll

00:32:26

probably do another video later on that

00:32:29

goes into soo into some more advanced

00:32:31

soldering so perhaps you know soldering

00:32:33

some ICS onto boards or you know some

00:32:37

some smaller components but just as a

00:32:40

basics of beginners guide that's pretty

00:32:42

much all I wanted to I wanted to show

00:32:45

please feel free to leave comments or if

00:32:48

there's anything else you would like me

00:32:49

to demonstrate just put in a request and

00:32:52

I'll see what I can do so thanks for

00:32:55

watching

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