How To Solder Solid Wires Together

The challenge is holding the wires in place long enough for the solder to cure.

How to solder solid wires together. As the melt will start to cool down the bond will get strong. Youll get a straight wire that has a little sideways bump in it so get a larger shrink tube to isolate it youll need two times the diameter of one wire. You simply touch the freshly tinned tip of your soldering iron onto the bare wires for a couple of seconds and then apply the solder at which point it will smoke and flow over the wires almost immediately and you can withdraw the solder and then the iron and you should be left with a bright silver joint like the one below.

For all solid or all stranded wires. Dont use too much. You can solder any metal objects together even wires to other wires.

Place the soldering iron underneath the wires and apply the solder from the top. Solder is not meant to make a solid connection - only to hold one together. First place the solder on the tip to allow for melting.

Make seven or eight turns and cut the excess of the wire. Just like you would do with two solid wires. Begin by removing the insulation from the ends of both wires you are soldering together.

Alternately you can wrap the wires together side-by-side check out the pictures Its much easier to twist the wires together effectively but it affects the outcome when you straighten out the wires. Hold it on the wire for 3-4 seconds. Affix the wire to the soldering clamps making sure that the clamps hold the flux parts of the wire together completely.

To tin a wire apply the tip of your iron to the wire for a second or two then apply the solder to the wire. - Twist them all together like a twisty soft-serve ice cream cone. You can bend the solder joint to one side but then youre left.