Soldering Tiny Wires
Friday, July 17th, 2009In 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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