How To Make Your Own Soldering Wire

On the other side connect the red wire to the nichrome wire at the base.

How to make your own soldering wire. Flatten or create a rivet head on one end of the wire. Repeat for the other side. Antique if desired.

This free jewelry tutorial follows the same format as in the paid for pdf jewelry tutorials. Ad Quality Solder Wire Drawing Machine. If all seems good go ahead and expand your sleeving back up to the edge of the connector.

Pull the copper out the side of the slit and cut off the excess insulation. Insert the batteries Your battery-powered soldering iron is now ready. Using jump rings is probably the easiest way.

But there are others. The soldering iron tips created in this instructable are made starting from 6 AWG solid copper electrical wire and these tips are are approximately 4 mm 532 inch in diameter. After a few seconds the solder cup will reach the correct temperature the solder will melt and the center conductor will drop into the pool of solder.

Build your own resistance solderer Great results for minimal investment Vance Bass Albuquerque NM If youre like me you dont solder things unless you absolutely have to. Try sourcing some alli solder it may work for your particular wire. If you want the kids to be able to solder the wire it will be good for you to tin it first as the flux fumes are also nastier than those of conventionally fluxed solder.

All you need to make your own solder wick is a piece of stranded copper wire or copper coaxial cables braid actually the coaxial cables braid would work better and a coat of flux and its it. With this jewelry lesson on good binding wire techniques a foundation is laid where correct binding wire practices and tricks are taught. To make your own solder you would need a foundry to melt the copper and tin and specialized extruder to create the wire evenly and WITH a rosin core and a way to coat the solder evenly in flux a dip bucket just outside the extruder would probably do.