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Soldering to perfboard - where to find tinned copper wire?
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mariush:
I just strip the insulation from some ethernet cable to extract the 8 wires inside. 

However, must be actual copper solid core cable...  some cheap ethernet cable these days can be copper clad aluminum, so when you bend the wire of such cable to go through hole, the copper may break off as well and it gets harder to solder.

You can easily filter on Digikey to get such wires.

Hookup wire, Solid core, tinner or annealed+tinner : https://www.digikey.com/products/en/cables-wires/single-conductor-cables-hook-up-wire/474?k=&pkeyword=&sv=0&pv82=24&sf=1&FV=ffe001da%2C1048000d%2C10480003&quantity=&ColumnSort=0&page=1&pageSize=25

There's even a bus wire right there on the first page of results (uninsulated tinned copper ) : https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/belden-inc/8023-000100/BEL1031-100-ND/7006803

Another trick is buying ribbon cables with solid core wires and cutting as many wires as you need from ribbon : https://www.digikey.com/products/en/cables-wires/flat-ribbon-cables/472?FV=ffe001d8%2C1480018&quantity=0&ColumnSort=1000011&page=1&pageSize=25
Refrigerator:

--- Quote from: Doctorandus_P on February 18, 2019, 11:05:33 pm ---I actually prefer to use solid enameled  / transformer wire.
With a temperature controlled iron at 400c to 450C you can burn through the laquer and solder it, while the rest of the wire stays insulated.
This was quite a normal approach for prototypes a long time ago.
Attached a picture with this technique.
The plastic brackets used to be sold at hobby shops.
But nowaday's the modern youth does not have patience for this, or they get tempted by the cheap PCB direct lines from China.

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Imagine having to troubleshoot that!
KL27x:
+1. It's beautiful, until the day it stops working.

I hate conventional thru hole boards, period. Even when I use protoboard and thru hole parts, I always turn the copper side facing up, and I make all my jumpers topside, so I can see the components and connections at the same time. 
tooki:

--- Quote from: Doctorandus_P on February 18, 2019, 11:05:33 pm ---The plastic brackets used to be sold at hobby shops.
But nowaday's the modern youth does not have patience for this, or they get tempted by the cheap PCB direct lines from China.

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Or maybe today's youth doesn't use the plastic brackets because they stopped selling it before they ever got into electronics?

Yeesh, we should be better here than to piss on kids who are enjoying our hobby.
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