How To Solder Really Small Wires

Hold the part in a small vicehelping hand and apply as much good luck as you can.

How to solder really small wires. Make sure to hold the iron on the surface only for a few seconds. You will need to get some 30 or 32 AWG wire pre tin the ends use a very fine tip flux never enough in the core of solder and a very steady hand. Solid wire can be used with flux added by a brush a bottle dispenser or a pen dispenser.

Heat the iron and flow solder on the iron tip and the wrapped wire and get solder on the thinner wire sticking out. Solder the outside of the tab. Use heat shrink to cover the connection.

Pre tin the pads as well. Apply the soldering iron tip and pull. On really small wires i dont tin them cant leave the heat on them but just for a second.

To make things a bit easier I chose to start from the centre of the board outwards and with the biggest parts before the smallest. Ad Quality Solder Wire Drawing Machine. If you did the cable and the tag at the same time by the time the solder properly melted the wire insulation would have started to melt.

Using assisting hands or another form of clamp device is recommended for this process. Its now time to demonstrate how to solder wires together. Very thin like a hair enamel coated wire works when using a reasonably small soldering tip.

Type of flux -- No-clean flux is a good choice for soldering where cleaning is. Remove the soldering iron and wait a few seconds to let the soldered connection cool and harden. Clean the tip then tin the wire.