For any diameter of enamel-coated wire larger than a strand of hair, the burnt enamel should be removed to expose the copper. Otherwise solder wetting will be poor and the soldering process frustrating. You can do this using fine sandpaper, a file, or a sharp knife. Burning the enamel first makes removal easier. For thin wires the soldering iron is adequate. Larger diameters require a lighter. Even large diameters a small blowtorch. Tin the wire prior to soldering using a generous amount of flux. This will also show you if you did a good job scrapping off the burnt enamel.
Alex On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:55:05 PM UTC, Gideon Wackers wrote: > > Well the first board is filled with tubes, and my head is filled with > headache from peering at the board.. The enameled wire was very hard to > solder even after burning off the enamel layer. Although I do not dare to > show the abomination that I call "soldering" the tubes are all connected. > Don't worry I know how to solder, but the enamel wire was giving me a very > hard time. The nice thing about the enamel wire was that it was easy to go > through the forest of component legs. I'm off to bed. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/3bd64c59-b0f7-4be1-a4ec-4ced96bbff34%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
