soldering help!!

[legendndisguise 10+ year member]

I'm willing to bet half you idiots have never soldered anything before in your life..... :crash:

I'm willing to bet you are wrong..

 

[12VoltIsMyBag 10+ year member]

I'm willing to bet half you idiots have never soldered anything before in your life..... :crash:

not once //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

I'm willing to bet half you idiots have never soldered anything before in your life..... :crash:

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif . IVE ONLY SOLDERED BOARDS WIRES TUBES COPPER AND EVEN ALLUMINUM

 

[phantom240 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif . IVE ONLY SOLDERED BOARDS WIRES TUBES COPPER AND EVEN ALLUMINUM

Stfu n00b.

 

[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

Stfu n00b.

K

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

What kind of solder? Have you cleaned the surface well enough?
I use rosin core solder... works like a champ every time.

This.

The solder I use is from Radioshack, and it even adheres to old solder. It's built for champions.

Just make sure you have enough solder on the board to actually support any sort of weight.... and if all fails, put in a piece of metal and solder that.

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

Make sure your using electrical solder. Rosin core. If your struggling to melt the solder and its not sticking make sure its not solder meant for sweating pipe. A pack of electrical solder and a nice tip will make it a cakewalk.

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

It would be nice if you could get a pic, might be able to give you some advice on how to actually go about fixing it.

 

[RuinedAng3l 10+ year member]

OP doesnt need a solder removal tool, hes already got one. That big gay-looking blue thing on page 1 is actually a solder vacuum.

Heat the area where you would like to solder, not the solder itself.

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

jchoe here is what you do son..
you need what is called a sauder sucker. basicly when you heat up the old sauder it get's all shinny and runny. the sauder sucker will **** that off of the board.

i think you can buy them at radio shack.. maybe i dunno

then once you get the board on witch you are trying to sauder this new wire onto all nice and clean and free of sauder, you will want to insert the wire into the hole on the board, then heat up the wire and the board to the point where the sauder is pretty mutch just melting onto the wire, not onto the tip of the saudering iron.

and that will stick to the board.

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

i have this:

Solder

Iron

i used the sucker. never sanded it though. won't that scratch the contacts off the board? and i have that braid also. and it sucketh teh balls IMO

 

[djman37 5,000+ posts]

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

btw, i've successfully burnt the **** outta my fingers 2 times //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

i have this:
Solder

Iron

i used the sucker. never sanded it though. won't that scratch the contacts off the board? and i have that braid also. and it sucketh teh balls IMO

this ^

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[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

You dont need to sand anything.