How To Make Homemade Soldering Wire

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How to make homemade soldering wire. Take the copper tip 1 a piece of 710 cm of 345 mm diameter copper rod and roll the insulator over it on about 4 cm. Pour in a glass or ceramic coffee container. And now you just made a solder wick from a piece of copper wire you can use it as the usual solder wick.

Solder wick is just braided copper wire coated with flux when you heat it on top of the solder the flux and the solder melt and then the solder wick acts as a sponge and absorb or soak up the solder this effects known as Capillary action the homemade solder wick has the same principle. Keep the soldering iron on the bottom of the wire to continue heating it. Group and tape the power ACCY and ground wiring together.

Remove the soldering iron. Untangle the braids of copper then fan the strands out like shown below. In previous videos we compared different types of commercial flux but did you know its possible to make a simple and effective flux at home.

I extended the accessory wire slightly by soldering and heat shrinking another 8 inches of 18-gauge Red wire to the one Pioneer included Step 3. You can use more vinegar than water. DangPro shows you how to create your own solder flux.

I just connected the charging leads to a home made hand piece applied it to my brass pieces flipped the switch and applied the solder. Well get you started and dont miss the giveaway at the end of the video. To make your own solder wick you will just need a piece of stranded copper wire and some flux.

I still had the problem of needing a way to turn the power on and off while my hands were occupied. Some people even use just vinegar no water. Plug in the soldering iron and let it heat up.