Archive for July, 2009

Soldering Tiny Wires

Friday, July 17th, 2009

A wide piece of masking tape holds the wires in place.

A wide piece of masking tape holds the wires in place.


In the course of adding a brushless tail motor to a little Walkera helicopter, I had to solder three very small pairs of wires together.

The first solder joint went OK, but as I started to work on the second pair of wires, the first joint came undone.

Then I realized two things:

  • That I should immediately reinforce solder joints with shrink tubing.
  • That I got lucky the first time.

Try as I might, I couldn’t calm my shaky hands sufficiently to solder another pair.
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