I have a Weller soldering station with digital readout and the temp set to 375 C and I have a different experience tinning wires, tinning lugs (as in this video) then what it looks like in your videos. I use .75mm diameter Kester rosin core solder 60% tin/40% lead. When you touch the lug with your iron and touch the solder to the lug it seems to immediately melt and flow and the entire procedure takes less than a second. My experience is with a tinned iron, I hold the solder to the lug for several seconds or more (trying/shaking to keep the very small diameter solder on the lug for those seconds) before it starts to melt and flow. And when you add solder to the top of a pot, it sure looks like you touch the tip of the iron in the crevice between the tip and the top of the pot instead of just touching the solder to the top of the pot. When I try to add solder to the pot (mms away from the tip) it takes 4-5 seconds before the solder melts. What am I doing wrong? Any tips?
There’s several things that affect this. Solder usually follows heat, flux, and gravity. Usually the issue is the part you want the solder on is not hot enough to become “sticky” and create a chemical bond.
Try adding a tiny bit of flux to the lug specifically where you want the connection. Try turning up the heat to 700 or near it, and holding it on the lug surface alone for longer before adding the solder. To be fair, many people don’t like filling in the hole first. If you touch and heat both of the pretinned wire threaded through the lug and the lug together, you can usually get a quicker and easier connection by then letting the solder flow over both the lug and the wire already in the ideal position rather than doing each separately. Doing this allows you to use to leverage the lug hole to help hold both the wire, soldering iron, and solder in the right position during soldering
I have a Weller soldering station with digital readout and the temp set to 375 C and I have a different experience tinning wires, tinning lugs (as in this video) then what it looks like in your videos. I use .75mm diameter Kester rosin core solder 60% tin/40% lead. When you touch the lug with your iron and touch the solder to the lug it seems to immediately melt and flow and the entire procedure takes less than a second. My experience is with a tinned iron, I hold the solder to the lug for several seconds or more (trying/shaking to keep the very small diameter solder on the lug for those seconds) before it starts to melt and flow.
And when you add solder to the top of a pot, it sure looks like you touch the tip of the iron in the crevice between the tip and the top of the pot instead of just touching the solder to the top of the pot. When I try to add solder to the pot (mms away from the tip) it takes 4-5 seconds before the solder melts.
What am I doing wrong? Any tips?
Temp way to low. Try 700 degrees.
@@Marshall_EL34 Pssst, 375C is 707 degree F.
@@todd737 yep ...my bad. 375C = 700 F.
Why then, does the solder flow down, ya know gravity, onto the base of the lug and not fill the hole in the pot?
There’s several things that affect this. Solder usually follows heat, flux, and gravity. Usually the issue is the part you want the solder on is not hot enough to become “sticky” and create a chemical bond.
Try adding a tiny bit of flux to the lug specifically where you want the connection. Try turning up the heat to 700 or near it, and holding it on the lug surface alone for longer before adding the solder. To be fair, many people don’t like filling in the hole first. If you touch and heat both of the pretinned wire threaded through the lug and the lug together, you can usually get a quicker and easier connection by then letting the solder flow over both the lug and the wire already in the ideal position rather than doing each separately. Doing this allows you to use to leverage the lug hole to help hold both the wire, soldering iron, and solder in the right position during soldering