How To Solder Two Thick Wires Together
Touch the tip of the soldering iron to the copper wires.
How to solder two thick wires together. Extending the heat shrink about 12 to 1 passed the solder joint on both sides. Let the solder melt and flow over the wires. Learn how to solder thick gauge wire properly with todays Fast Tip.
Strip about 6 mm 14 from the end of the wire. They should be propped up off the workspace so you can have access to the area under the wires. Using a wire stripper or your micro flush cutters strip about half an inch of plastic insulation away from the ends of both wires.
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. 326 mm 9 114 inch 291 mm 10 102 inch 26 mm 12 081 inch 50 2 mm thick About as thick as a standard wire coat hanger 14 064 inch. Heat the copper and apply solder to the side opposite the heating implement.
Slide heatshrink glue lined sleeving over the join on the soldered bit only then slide more glue lined heatshrink over the whole of the area an seal the whole lot. Repeat the tinning process on the other wire. How to solder thick wires together how to solder 2 thick wires together how to solder thick wires how to solder large wires together.
A Western Union join looks sharp and easy to do with two pliers. Twist and fold 2. Secure both sides of the rejoined wire so they wont move when touched with the iron.
8 128 a little over 18 inch. Real tidy with needle nose and only requi. If it is a thick wire you should turn up the heat on your iron if possible to make the wire heat up faster.