ah sorry didnt see
thanks man
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ceramic tweezers…Fingers, other tweezers or pliers. Everything that can grip without melting.
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Wow those look bloody great! Link? Ceramic tweezers of some sort correct?
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SG$ 2.28 17%OFF | Multifunctional Steam Vaper Ceramic Insulation Head Tweezers Forceps Yellow
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yo how many amps is that Iron looks like it packs a punch>>
I can only imagine the pant poop moment when you remember isolation is important.
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130w iron. It’s a hakko presto I think. Cheap yet great and it’s hakko so it’ll last. @jack.luis sold me his extra one
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Got a question, so i was checking out my solder joints that I soldered a while ago, I forgot that I touched it and ate food. Will anything happen or will I be ok?
If anything happens it won’t be due to the femtogram of lead you might have ingested.
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Stainless steel also works well and draws heat away quickly.
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If only I’d found this thread a month ago … Considers stripping & resoldering EVERYTHING 
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So, I just read through this entire thread to see what I’ve been doing wrong if I have. Lots of good stuff. I do have one tip I picked up somewhere on here that isn’t mentioned.
When you’re soldering a wire to a connector, bullet or otherwise, it will make your life SIGNIFICANTLY easier if you tin your wire BEFORE stripping it. It maintains the size and shape of the wire, which makes it far easier to get it to fit.
I don’t think i had a wire lose it’s shape while tinning it. That’s why we twist the wires before tinning.
There’s also no way of telling how well the solder has spread out between the strands of wire. Did it go to all sides? How deep did it wick? You’ll know when you strip it.
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I should rephrase a bit. Since seeing someone mention that technique and adopting it I haven’t had to clean a ball of solder off my wires, or had any particularly shitty jobs like I was previously. It seems to wick onto the wire a lot cleaner. I’m also rather inexperienced at soldering, I haven’t been using flux, and I’ve been using pretty crap solder that came with my cheap as hell iron, but this technique has helped me out a lot as a total n00b. Also it seems to be quicker and takes less cleanup. Specifically with bullet connectors, which it seems a lot of other n00bs struggle with, it just seems to be a lot quicker and easier, for me with my crappy setup anyways.
I’m gonna redo most if not all of my connections after reading all this, for practice if not for safety.
Edit after reading your edit: this probably would not work well for larger wires, due to the not knowing how well it spread to the sides part. As for how deep, it’s probably BECAUSE of the lack of flux, but in the =>8awg wires I’ve been working with, I can pretty clearly feel how deep it goes as soon as it cools a bit.
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i eat while soldering in a poorly ventilated room and im alive, however im not very smart
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There it is ^^
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Ah this explains the concern i had. The method works best to just secure the wire, not to fully tin it.
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correction: I said I did not like this method, not true. Only on smaller wires under 14 ish AWG I rather just strip then tin.
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Yeah I use it only for the big stuff too
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bows thank you solder sensei’s. lmao.
i just saw it in passing and tried it and liked it. now that im a bit more well read on soldering techniques im gonna practice a whole bunch til my battery gets here.
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