SkunT

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.

AgentMurdoc

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

bambooseven

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.

88crxSi

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

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

bambooseven

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

88crxSi

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

bambooseven

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

AgentMurdoc

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 *** 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.

bambooseven

bingo

88crxSi

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

c'mon DETAILS.. DETAILS!