How To Make Your Own Soldering Wire

Too much or too little flux will cause problems with the solder attaching to the parts.

How to make your own soldering wire. Ad Quality Solder Wire Drawing Machine. Finally add a piece of heatshrink to the bottom and youre all done. How to make and use your own solder wick.

With this jewelry lesson on good binding wire techniques a foundation is laid where correct binding wire practices and tricks are taught. Preassemble your cable parts and check for size before you solder. 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.

Clean and tin the tip of the iron with a dab of solder lay the center conductor on the pad of solder in the solder cup and press the tip into the wire and cup. A Dremel tool with a good cutoff wheel can also be used. Lightly tug on your solder job to make sure no wires come loose.

On the other side connect the red wire to the nichrome wire at the base. More accurate and improve your working speed. 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.

Use good quality sharp wire cutters dykes for cutting the cable. This tutorial will show you how to make a general silver solder with a low melting point easy. Pull the copper out the side of the slit and cut off the excess insulation.

The little hassles add up. This free jewelry tutorial follows the same format as in the paid for pdf jewelry tutorials. Try sourcing some alli solder it may work for your particular wire.