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Offline GyroTopic starter

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Sometimes it's better to just stick with woodworking!
« on: April 29, 2019, 08:27:26 pm »
I came across this video while browsing my collection of woodworking sites.

Pretty painful watching someone putting so much concentration into generating such awful joints. All that bared wire and hardly a mechanical connection. The "heat the joint, not the solder" advice is sound enough but it really helps to have the tip wetted enough to transfer the heat!  ... and never be afraid of going back to reheat a badly wetted joint.  :-\

« Last Edit: April 29, 2019, 08:40:23 pm by Gyro »
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Re: Sometimes it's better to just stick with woodworking!
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2019, 10:13:55 pm »
Bright nickel plated terminals don't take solder well unless you scuff the surface with a  fine abrasive and use plenty of flux.   IMHO the demonstrator should have mentioned that if they are not gold flashed or tin plated, you'll probably need to pre-tin the terminals, then demonstrated that.   

However its almost certainly not the demonstrator's fault -  any chief engineer of a radio station is almost certainly competent with an iron in their hand - its the fault of the magazine commissioning too short a video and scripting too much in it.   4:06 or 246 seconds isn't a lot of time when you take off 20 seconds for opening and closing titles and another 15 seconds for a Menards 'Tool-Shop' brand product placement.
 

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Re: Sometimes it's better to just stick with woodworking!
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2019, 10:13:20 am »
Bad soldering. He should have prepared the terminals so the solder would flow. You want to see the solder flow and wet everything well.  The result is very bad and he should know it.
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Re: Sometimes it's better to just stick with woodworking!
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2019, 10:37:09 am »
I couldn't even 'PLAY' the Video, after seeing the 'Iron' on the 'wire' only, in the static
image of the video promo/beginning above. Heat goes to what needs the most heat !!!
Every real electrician/plumber knows that various metals/sizes need appropriate heat/FLUX.
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Re: Sometimes it's better to just stick with woodworking!
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Re: Sometimes it's better to just stick with woodworking!
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2021, 10:40:29 am »
Really? He could have at least removed the tabs and soldered them separately before connecting them to the speaker, or better yet, use some cheap screw terminals.   :palm:
 

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Re: Sometimes it's better to just stick with woodworking!
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2021, 11:23:37 am »
At least they named him and his business so we can all avoid him in future.
 
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