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In Reply to: soldering magnet wire - help! posted by exolinear on October 24, 2000 at 17:00:49:
Did you sand the coating all off?Are holding your wire with a relatively large metal object that is sucking all the heat away from the wire so the wire doesn't get hot enough? This should only be a problem if your iron is not hot or powerful enough.
Does your solder contain a flux filled core? If not get a flux pen. I think flux helps solder to flow (though I believe its primary purpose is to clean the oxide off the leads or wires that are to be soldered).
There are two standards ways to skin that wire.
1. You need a moderately powerful iron. 30 to 40 watts. Get it nice and hot. Put it to the end of the wire you need to strip. Melt some solder where the iron and wire meet (this is the trick). The coating should start boiling away real soon. When it does, apply more solder to the wire and tin it. Works for me.
2. Get the $25 Tenma solder pot from MCM that Doc recommends. I don't have one myself but I gather if you just stick the wire into the molten solder the coating will boil right off and the wire will get tinned at the same time. If that doesn't work, you can still use the pot to pour molten metal over the Visigoths when they come knocking on your door . . . :-))
Good luck!
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- Re: soldering magnet wire - help! - mingc 17:19:48 10/24/00 (3)
- Re: soldering magnet wire - help! - Kurt Vogel 21:33:12 10/24/00 (2)
- Funny you brought that up . . . - mingc 16:53:33 10/25/00 (1)
- Re: Funny you brought that up . . . - J Epstein 11:50:19 10/26/00 (0)
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