Practicing soldering for my DIY electric skateboard build, how does it look?

How-Tos & Esk8 mechanics
#13

the wires? yeah i put a little bit on it and then a little bit inside the connector then connected them in eachother while warming everything up and it combined nice

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#14

You warmed up the connector before putting the wire in it or you warmed the wire and added it to the connector

#15

bro you just put them against eachother then warm the connector and jam wire inside it and they both get warm

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#16

Say less

#17

im in this exact situation. 8awg and xt90 is really kicking my ass

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#19

Update: first time getting the wire to solder into the cup. Job is still shit but hey this a good sign I’m getting somewhere.

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Another update: got a way better solder

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#21

I cant stress enough how important it is to have everything clean. Soldering is super simple or the basics are any way.

  1. Clean things needed to be soldered
  2. Make sure its clean.
  3. Add flux
  4. Apply heat and/or solder

I find cleaning to the most important even when tining your wire or connector.

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#22

jesus you are making me feel like making a video tutorial, I am not even a youtuber…

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#23

Lol soldering tutorial for esk8 connectors is two videos away on my list :smiley: :upside_down_face:

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#24

Pic of your Iron, flux and solder? Do you have tip cleaner?

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#25

I can’t wait to try this stuff out.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NS4J6BY/

The amazon reviews make it sound like using it will give you an orgasim

#26

I use a sponge

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#27

I used flux for the connector and wire. It bonded easily, so I know that method worked

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#28

seems like you have a working soldering setup, you just need to practice the right methods for connectors and all that.

if you are using any weak iron at all xt90 and 10AWG is only possible with skills

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#29

Yea I can’t lie the first one was ass but the red wire was pretty good for my first time, I gotta perfect it but I’m not in a hurry to start my build because I wanna make sure nothing detaches and I go flying lmao

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#30

Yep we can help, just keep doing solder joints and posting pics here will grade and tell ya how to improve

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#31

I’m using 12awg and I got rosin core solder but just using this to practice and not waste the rosin core

#32

I did read the “How to Solder” thread and that’s how I learned to add flux + add solder onto the tip of the iron and that helped ALOT, my very first attempts of soldering just a plain wire was terrible and lumpy but now I’ve been practicing and from the info I made a pretty nice smooth solder on the wire, same for the connector. Just all about practice but at the same time I don’t wanna waste all my XT-90 connectors

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