How To Solder Very Small Wires

Clean the tip then tin the wire.

How to solder very small wires. 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. Make seven or eight turns and cut the excess of the wire. After stripping the wires and attempting to twist them together I clamp.

The wires here are 24AWG and while they are not necessarily tiny by some standards f. Heat the wire not the solder. For copper wire of 30 awg and larger I use a Jonard stripper that has sharpened jaws like the common stripper electricians use except it goes to a finer gauge.

Make sure your soldering iron is fully heated and touch the tip to the end of one of the wires. Hold the part in a small vicehelping hand and apply as much good luck as you can. You should cover all of the wires with solder but still be able to see the strands when finished.

Heat the pads and melt a small amount of solder on to each pad and let it cool. If you do it right you get a big melted bead ON the iron but with the wires running through the middle of it. Probably 50 or so tiny wires in that mess.

The solder should be fed into the cool side away from the heat which allows it to be drawn in smoothly by the heat transfer through the wires. Had also to fabricate some of the specialized posts. To make things a bit easier I chose to start from the centre of the board outwards and.

Ad Find Every Electronic Parts on Octopart. If its Teflon I accomplish the same skinning action by running a razor flat on the wire. As an aside one of my favorite strippers today is the Triplettt PowrStrip note no e in Powr.