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ohh yeah, i forgot about wiping off the nast old solder on your tip. some people use an old wet rag, i use a sponge. i dont know why, i just do.



everything everyone has said is exactly how to do it.

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wipe off the old solder? ---- I just sand it down the next run :P

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that is all pretty much how to do it, use a thinner guage solder for PCB's then you do for open wires.

BTW for open wires, DO NOT, wrap solder around two twisted up wires and use a ciggarette lighter to heat it up. ;)

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lol and heat shrink.. just the rubber wrap crap and a hair dryer?

and yes, this is for a obd0-obd1 harness.

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no, for heat shrink I actually do go buy heat shrink tube, and use a cigarette lighter to heat it up.

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i dont know if i trust you and your cigarette lighter tatics... :P

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the solder one was a joke, the heat shrink one I'm serious, it works just fine.

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i use a lighter too, i just put the shrink wrap a good maybe 6 inches above the flame and it shrinks, if you put it too close it shrinks, get distorted and looks like ass if put too long. Or you could run the wrap through the fire back and forth quickly, this works too.


Oh and I just remembered another way I do it, I use the heat from the soldering iron to 'shrink' it. I just discovered this the last time i was soldering and it worked pretty damn good. And you don't expose too much heat to the surround delicates, if there are any.

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bingo

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ok.. do i twist the wires together then solder that or just lay them acorss and solder that?

c'mon DETAILS.. DETAILS! ;D