Four Steps to Flawless Wire Joints (How to Solder)

If you are struggling to splice and solder wires together, here are four simple steps you can follow to achieve consistently good solder connections - it's all about maximizing heat transfer onto your work surface!

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Chapters:
0:00 how NOT to solder
0:58 Tools for soldering
3:10 Cleaning the soldering iron tip
4:32 Wire splicing
6:16 What bad soldering looks like
7:17 Four steps to efficiently solder
9:50 Inspecting a solder joint
10:42 Heat shrink tubing

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