Ok.. i've never soldered before.. anyone wanna do a quick PROPER write up?

 

well, i use the $7 soldering iron from radio-shack. it does a good job. it's easy, just let the bitch heat up, make about a 8" "stretch" of solder, and put the tip of the gun on the wires/whatever your soldering and after a few seconds, put the solder on it. some people use flux, it makes a nicer solder, but i dont use it. (you would put the flux on the solder before melting it-just use a little bit) you gotta be careful though, that ---- gets hot. its easy, just takes a little practice. kinda fun once you get it down. i solder all of my connections that I can....

 

so i heat up the two bare wires and when they're hot dab the solder wire on it and that'll melt the wire and then cool and thats it? cool!

 

yeah, it's simple, just get the gun hot and melt the solder with it where you need it. just practice on something of no value.

 

No0bs make the mistake of feeding solder INTO the iron as opposed to the part you're soldering. You want to apply the solder to the part, close to the iron's tip, but not on it. Then, let capillary action do the rest. Maybe I could do a video....

-Tim

 

What is it that you plan to solder? Depending on the application, you'll get different advice from me.

 

Hah hah Mike! Just after you bought some ecu plugs from me you post a how to solder thread. You crack me up. You crazy canadians do things backward.

 

i love soldering it is fun. just watch out for skin and hot parts. yeah blistering is not fun.

 

heat up the iron.
if it`s been used. get a wet rag and drag the iron tip on it so it scrubs off all the crap/old solder on it
let it heats up again if u had too much fun with the rag.
twist up the two wires that`s getting weld
use the very tip of the iron, touch one side of the twisted wire. wait for like 2 second, stick the solder into the wire where it ALMOST touches the tip of the iron. then ---- start melt onto the bare wire, move the iron alone with the solder until u weld up the whole thing.

 

Then again...this is HMT, so you have to ask how much HP it will produce and if the wing will make the soldering faster.

-Tim