That's why I like reading posts like this, it may not be of interest to EVERYONE (and WHY are the OT's viewing a "how to solder" video ANYWAYS?? Don't know how to solder??) but it IS of interest to "newbies" like me (I've been known to burn HOLES in circuit boards!) , AND you (might) learn a new trick or two!! IMHO, an instructional video like this shouldn't be more than 5-10 minutes, didn't view the WHOLE video, it was too long!! You SHOULD know what kind of equipment you'll need ALREADY, and you DON'T have to spend half the video pushing your previous videos, people can look them up!!!
I'd LOVE to find an Elmer!! All I ever get from the OT's around here is "figure it out yourself like I had to!!" Didn't they have Elmers in "the good old days" when they had to learn umpteen wpm CW???? Or maybe have an online group of Elmers?? (http://www.elmers.org, or something...)
IMHO people have the attention span of a gnat. I appreciate longer complete videos. Not everything in life can be jump cut into 5 minutes. smh.
Joining a local club is the best way and hunting on the local repeater is another. With the plandemic its very difficult though. People are to busy in their lives now it seems so if you find one take good care of them. I have a couple of elmers and I trade helping them out for info. I used to climb towers back in the day and it was a great help to older hams and a great help to me. Be willing to jump in and lend a hand and you will find some great elmers.
Did somebody point out already that this soldering is not even close to a right method? Shouldn't be published as a material to teach others. Not the bent leads but the heating and all. As it shows, a lot of soldering wire is applied to the iron, it slightly contacted to the surface of the component's lead somewhere near to its top, and when that small spot heats up, a big amount of melted tin falls down to the lead and the PCB, but they not necessarily heat up enough, and may cool down too fast afterwards. That's why this soldering technic needs such an excessive amount of tin to be used, but it is still not a stable method, such soldering _will_ result cold joints at times. The right method is to make a stable, strong enough contact between the iron and the "bare" PCB around the hole _and_ the component's lead together, and after a little while, depending on the quality of the tools, surfaces, etc., when you apply a _small_ amount of soldering wire, it is going to extend on them happily forming that nice concave shape that is already mentioned here and usually pursued for a reason. Also, the result will probably be looking shiny, mostly by using lead free soldering wire, too.
As I said before, everyone around here is in the "figure it out yourself like I had to" crowd...I'm beginning to think it's BECAUSE I'm a "newbie" and didn't have to learn umpteen wpm CW, so I'm not a "REAL Ham"...
Maybe you didn't learn code BUT you are learning a lot more about electronics then many of them will ever know. They didn't have all of these new types of componants that we use today. Sure learning code is a challenge but then so is learning all of these new components and how to best work with them. So to all of the old code farts tap-on and enjoy your hobby. All of you new-comers keep the chin up and keep on learning and have fun. 50 years of electronics and I'm still learning and having fun. Let's all just try to get along and be civil to each other. We have enough problem in life. 73's and God bless
I'd like to add to this excellent description that heating the lead wire and pad with the soldering tip alone severely limits heat transfer from the tip to the wire and pad, so immediately after placing the tip on the pad and wire, touch the tip with soldering wire to add some liquid solder to the contact place. This helps transferring heat to the entire "constellation" and while the place heats up add just enough to end up with a concave surface. Now, this looks as if you apply solder wire twice but in reality, when you get experienced, you do this in one smooth action. It's just that you need to understand the molten solder helps to transfer the heat to the entire place. The trick is not to just know how you do things but also why.
Thanks!! I was talking to someone the other day (on Children's Band, don't have a working ham radio yet) and he was talking about setting up some kind of online Elmers website...(he's been a ham for 20 years himself, and knows lots of other hams) He's one of the people who talked me into getting licensed, now that the code requirement has been done away with...
YAWN It's likely the same old monetized cr@pola. The same group puts up a YT video on the zed every week it seems, all show up in the news section. Horray, How to solder in 2020. I can't wait for the 2021 update! Look, there are probably over a hundred "How to solder" videos taking up gigs of space on data centers worldwide, meanwhile there is a global political ideology taxing carbon emissions...
Careful there, friend. Discussion of firearms ist verboten 'round these parts. Oh wait. You said carbon; not carbine. Never mind.
I agree....its all about advertising and obtaining viewer count for their youtube monetization, so sad QRZ allows these practices to continue this is nothing more or short of advertising, self promotion for $$
This guy may only have basic soldering skills, but his up-speak game is strong. Sounds like a teen aged girl!!
