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Removing enamel from coated wire

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Zero999:
I've found most enamel wire is solderable, but it requires a higher temperature than normal. I find 400ºC and plenty of flux works quite well.

KL27x:
Solder pot. Dip the end in the pot AND stir it around. After the enamel melts, it still wants a good reason to go somewhere else, else it just sticks around. When you stir the wire through molten solder, you leave a trail of enamel that floats to the surface and burns up into black schmoo. You do this as quick as possible so the wire gets cleaned and tinned before it dissolves into nothing.

KL27x:

--- Quote ---Sounds too easy and I think I've been there before with not much luck, or a poor job of it, so..
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+1. This is complete gawbidge. Well, I mean sure. Encourage people that it can be done. But it can be done a lot better, and if you're gonna write a frikking essay on it, you could include some better information.

 >:D

Electro Detective:

ok, I'll bite  ;D

I tried the method in that URL years ago before the author was conceived and it was a fail,

the old school MIG Sennheiser headphones wire is tough and stubborn

Careful abrasion techniques or whatever chemicals break down that coating, and clean up and prep and low temp leaded solder is the only to go afaik  :popcorn:

Sorry for the short essay  :P

 

eliocor:
I set my iron tip (Weller) to 415°C and (using fresh solder) i "touch" the enamelled wire. It works every time.
Please take care: it generates a nasty smell!

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