How To Solder Wires Together ( The BEST PRO Methods + Tips )

[Music] and welcome to a latest soldering video and thanks for tuning in in this one i'm going to go away from your normal pcb work i'm going to show you a few different methods for joining two wires together so i've got a few different sizes down here sort of i've got a few solder sleeves there that are quite a common sort of method for joining the wires i've got some homemade solder sleeves here that i'll show you a neat method for making them if you haven't sort of got any it's already made ones available i've got some heat shrink i'll show you how to fit that and the temperatures you sort of need i've got my trusty uh little jig here for holding the wires uh while you're soldering them if you haven't got one of them it's not a problem you still do it on the desk so yeah well hopefully throughout the sort of methods uh there'll be one that's always useful to you i'm going to start with quite an easy method where i just laid the wires next to each other solder them up and we shrink the sleeve over it and that's the most common method that a lot of people would use so we'll start off with that one then we'll progress through a few different methods and at the end i'll sort of show you how to make your your homemade solar sleeves and uh yeah hopefully you enjoyed the video and something useful for you and so what we do we'll get straight on the first method so do that one now all right so we're going to move on to method number one this one's called the solder splice lap method now it's the most common method that a lot of people would use so you start by stripping your wires but an equal amount in this case i'm going to do about 10 millimeters now i like to just sort of gently twist the strands for this one it's not earth yeah it's not a necessity but i think it aids it'll do when you do the soldering on this uh this example now i like to add some external flux just along the wire again it's something that's not something that tested to do just i think it will help the sides go through the strands and just get these tinned up then nicely tinned up let's just zoom in for this so you can see the joint better this is where you want to pop your sleeving on so because if the other ends of these two wires are going to an external source you wouldn't be able to get the sleeving on just just right so what i've done here i've changed the sort of camera angle to give you a real close-up of the uh the process soldering process taking place so as you can see got two sort of separate wires i've tinned both of them and basically i've just laid them next to each other this is the most common method that sort of lots of people would use really easy i just said sort of a slight bit of flux external flux over the uh the joint the solders like i say it's actually got flux built in but you know i always like to add a bit of external to make it sort of go nice and uh really easy and basically just put your iron on top and sort of melt the uh both the tin legs together you will end up with a really nice or joint soldered around and like the other methods i will sort of uh always remind you there is flux on here it's basically a non-corrosive flux i use you can clean it off if you you know if you really want to but for this video i'm not going to um yeah basically just push your sleeving on and uh yeah let's get that shrunk down i've got a here basically heat gun set to about 180 degrees just try and zoom that i'll tell you what i'll do now just uh get my heat coming to the onto the sleeving now if you haven't got a heat gun you can i've seen people sort of do it you can get a lighter to shrink your sleeve in some people would you sort of run a soldering iron along the joint and that would also shrink this leaving but if you can get a yeah if you can get a heat gun sort of do it does a multitude of jobs so it's worth getting one you can also work on your pcbs with it so remove components etc so yeah it's a good item to have so as you can see the sleeving's gone nicely down right along the whole length always try and move your gun along the whole length thanks for concentrating one area you'll get a consistent nice even uh shrinkage right along so that's gone so nice nicely down like you can see that's what we do i'll just turn that around so you can sort of see the shrinkage so yeah so you got a nice sort of a nice joint nicely sleeved and that's called the solder supply slap joint so what i'm going to do now i'm going to move on to another solder splice method similar to this but it's going to have an extra wrap around the middle for some more stability so move on to that one now so coming on to method number two this is uh again it's very similar to the last one but this one's gonna have an extra wrap around the middle so again i've stripped it as before and placed the wires next to each other i'm not going to tin it this time what i've got here some tin copper wire what you want to do now is just go round and round the sort of joint for yeah about six or seven turns and just for the sake of the video i'm gonna speed it up slightly i've already prepared this one as you can see i've got a wrap right around the middle that tin copper and that's what this one is is basically the same as the last one right next to wrap around the middle so what i've done here i'm using a different camera angle just so you can see a really clear sort of detail of how this method sort of looks so you got yeah you two lay the two wires laid next to each other with your few turns of tin copper wire going around them if you've got really thick wires you can use sort of thicker tin copper wire but yeah this is quite a thin sort of wire so i'm using about yeah about 28 gauge tin copper wire to go around this so what i'll do again i'm going to pre-flux this slightly just add a little bit along the joint underneath so this just aids the soldering or the solder to go right through the joint you basically get this soldered up as before again just lay your iron on there just keep feeding it in so this one will take a short while because it's got to go right through the joint so you've got a nice sort of detail there of what the joint should look like now as you can see there is some flux sort of remaining on there but the flux i use is non-corrosive so it should you know won't do any damage to the joint and what i can do just get this shrunk down it's going to zoom out slightly just so to shrink so yeah we'll get this shrunk down like the other methods before again about 180 degrees and just gently yeah just shrink it down right along the length of the joint so it's a really good method this gives the sort of first method that i showed just a bit more stability there you go started to go right along the whole length of the joint so we've got a nice nice even shrinkage right along as you can see you've got you you see where it's slightly dipped there that's where the joint sort of starts about there and it's the same there where it ends so that's basically the solder spliced sort of wrap method basically lay down that method with an extra wrap around the middle so what i'm going to do now i'm going to move on to this sort of next option and that's that one's going to be basically a similar method to this but instead of sort of twisting the wires together or you know like with the wrap i'm just literally going to push them together into sort of weave the strands and that one's called the solder splice mesh method so we move on to that one now move on to the third of the solder splice methods this one's called the solder spice mesh again strip an equal amount of both wires again i'm going to do about eight to ten millimeters as you can see i've got a nice equal amount so pop the first one in the jig again i'm going to pop my heat shrink on at this stage so yeah if you don't you might so maybe regret it enough when you've come to a to get it on there okay just so you can just gently tweak these apart into weave the strands and then squeeze it all back together don't do no twisting this method it's literally a case of just interlocking the strands just squeezing it all around the previous methods i've sort of zoomed in here i've changed the camera angles and get a really close look at what's going on so basically i've just pushed these two wires together you can sort of see the ends of the other wire coming from sort of there i've done the same the other end so these basically pushed together and squeezed up with no twisting involved just basically yeah it's called a mesh method quite a good option so again just add me flux i laid the sort of solder going through you just get that soldered up basically same as the other methods so yes it's not to say it's another good option pretty simple to do so we just get this soldered up so again you've got feed to solder just so it runs through the strands it's going to go right around the back as well you see it's all going through the joint again on there you can see the flux that's remaining but again as in the other methods if you want to clean the flux off not a problem but it's non-corrosive so it won't do any damage and so yeah so let's get this uh this shrunk down as in yeah same as the other ones it's basically you want your heat gun i've got my heat gun set to about 180 degrees again and we'll get this shrunk down you should get a nice neat joint let's run it right along the sleeve and again heat shrink comes into various types so the shrinkage ratio varies so yeah just make sure you get one that shrinks to what you need as you can see it's starting to go right along the length of the whole joint so it's quite a good option this i've used it plenty of times it's good if you need to get these well if you've got wires that you need to get apart fairly easy in the future without cutting them this is quite a good option for that so that's pretty much shrunk that down there you go that's called the solder splice mesh method so that's the last of the solder splice methods i'm going to show you i'm going to move on now to a hook joint and yeah hopefully you enjoy that one and find that useful and i'll move on to that one now all right so following on from the solder splice methods i've come to this hook method basically just for the sake of the video i'm going to take you through this in stages so what i've done here i've pre-stripped these they're about an inch back and i've sort of twisted them up and bent them back it's a very good method for single core wire this is stranded but it still works really well so this is the first stage getting to that sort of shape yeah like i say just for the sake of the video i'm going to take you through this in in some sort of little little demos i've done and uh yeah we'll take you through in stages so the second stage is basically hooking through through in the middle i've twisted one back on itself as you can see there and all you've got to do then is repeat the other side you'll end up with this finished he had a finished article basically as you can see they're hooked through the middle twisted back on themselves and that's ready now to solder so it's a very strong method it's going to give it good stability so what i'm going to do i'm going to transfer it to the jig and i'll sort choose a different camera angle and uh yeah we'll get this one soldered up and uh yeah you should see a good result so we'll do that bit now all right so transferred this to the solder jig and change the camera angle so as you can see you've got the hook right in the middle where they sort of uh yeah they're linked up and i've sort of twisted the wires back on themselves so again for this method as all the others i'm just going to add some external flux there's quite a lot of little loops on this and twists where you want the solder sort to get into all the gaps they just the solder has got all the flux in it but i say i always like to to add some external flux to aid the process then just start soldering it up basically this one's going to take a little while because obviously there's quite a few gaps to fill so yeah [Music] so we'll go along it feed the solder all the time and it will eventually find every every sort of little gap in the in the join as you can see that's gone right around every every detail on that join you still see the external flux i've added up the end but yeah if you want to clean it off you can but for this yeah just for sake the video i'll sort of leave it on for this one so you just slide the sleeving over you want it going off the end the other end as well so let's go that right along the whole length and i'll just get this shrunk up so i've got the same temperatures again so it's a really neat method this very strong because they're sort of you know really well linked in the middle and yeah it's a it's a good option just keep transferring your heat right along moving it all the time you're going to concentrate on one area too long but this way you just get a nice even join as you can see i've got no big bulges too bad coming out of any side and uh yeah basically that's let's give you a really neat sort of join right along as you see i've got it tight to the end of this sort of cable all the way and you can see the sort of you can see the sort of twists in it around there around there as it's sort of twisting around itself so basically that's the hook method so yeah it's a good option so um yeah what i'm going to do now i'll put a few photos up with the ones i've shown so far and then uh yeah i'll move on to some solder sleeve methods and i'll show you how to make your own shoulder sleeves so uh yeah after the pictures i'll move on to them to them two options so i'll put the pictures up now [Music] all right so following on from the solder splice and the hook methods we come onto these solder sleeves now at the back i've got three ready-made solder sleeves that are easily available from a lot of electrical retailers yeah you got your solder sort of in the middle where the red sort of color is and at the end you've got a bead of glue and yeah if you haven't got any already made ones you can easily make your own i'll give you a little sort of demonstration at the end how to make these and i'll sort of show you both of these methods sort of being used on the wires so yeah both options work really well so let's say if you haven't got any of the ready-made ones you can easily make your own so i'm going to do first i'm going to show you how to use yeah these ready-made ones and uh after that i'll show you a demonstration on the uh the homemade ones so we'll move on to the first method now so move on to the first of the solder sleeve methods these are the pre-made sleeves um yeah it's already available from a lot of electrical retailers so basically what i've done i've lined up the center band that's the red band that's the one that's the solder part of these sleeves and at the end you've got a sort of bead of glue at each end yeah so basically strip your your wires equal put the band in the middle and then yeah there you go the heat gun and it all depends on the temperatures your heat gun so what the solder make up of is inside it's you know lead free low melt or leaded so basically just experiment with that yeah what you need i put some silver foil just below it my heat gun hasn't got a lot of heat shield to silver foil does the same sort of job and just here basically concentrate in the center you should see that goes it starts to go the shiny [Music] there you go it's already gone nice and shiny i'm writing on the joints that's basically what you're looking for so it's a great method it worked really well and so yeah so so if you can't get this method basically make your own locker like i sort of showed you at the start now all that's coming out at the end you see the glue sort of popping out the end this little cable itself is perfect no damage so it's a good method they're pre-made come in all different sizes so yeah like i said if you can't get these you can make your own and that's where i'm going to go now i'm going to sort of show you the homemade ones and uh yeah show you how they go so move on to that one now let's come up to the stage now where i'm just going to show you how you can sort of do some homemade shoulder sleeves if you haven't got any of the pre-made ones available very simple method what are you looking for i've just found a sort of watchmaker screwdriver you're looking for yeah some slight movement around the outside of the tool you're going to use to wrap the solder just so the solder when it's all wrapped it's still going to fit snugly into the into the sleeving so for this one i'm just going to do three or four turns keep them quite tight just trim the leads off just pull it off the screwdriver now and trim the other side so just get that one trimmed up the best way to do this just pop it down on the desk or whatever surface you got just push it in basically and you can yeah just sort of work it into the middle and there you have it you got a nice feel of sort of bead of solder a few sort of turns in the inside and that's going to sort of do you a good job so i'm going to do a demonstration later how these work hopefully you can see sort of how useful they are so if you haven't got any pre-made ones you know these could help you out in the future so uh yeah i'm moving to the next stage and so i'll do a demonstration on this one later once we finally move on now to the homemade sleeves and yeah see how this one shrinks down so as you can see i've got me wrapped around solder in the middle yes a little bit sort of blurry this because you've got to look through the sleeving so yeah this uh let's see how this goes now depending what solder you put in the middle you just have to experiment with the heat you need yeah i've got silver foil to put the eye mixed up my heat gun i haven't got a deflector so that's just a bit bouncy back it's enabling it to sort of melt quicker see how this we've got the goes done just concentrating the shoulder in the middle you should see it sort of flow along you can see it already going and going here quite a good result there you go you've got solder going right along the joints that's what you're looking for that's that easy so yeah basically that's a it's a really good method the homemade ones so if you ever stuck and you haven't got any other pre-made ones easy make your own like i showed you earlier and uh yeah you should be good to go so anyway that wraps these videos up for this uh for this one so what i'll do put a few more pictures up and uh you hopefully join me in the future when i do some more so thanks a lot for your time and uh here good luck with all your projects i'll see you soon thank you [Music] you

Channel: Mr SolderFix

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Length: 21min 25sec (1285 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 05 2022