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- 25 or 40 watt soldering iron gun for guitar electronics?
I noticed using a 25 watt iron while replacing my electronics on my strat that it was very difficult to get a proper hot joint It took what I felt is an excessively long time to heat it enough to melt the solder, a couple minutes give or take Is a 40 watt iron or gun a better way to go for guit
- Which solder for guitar wiring? - Harmony Central
Which solder is optimal for guitar wiring? I seem to have a spool of this lead-free rosin-core solder solder It contains 97 3% tin, 0 7% copper, 2 0% rosin flux core Would this work well for guitar wiring? In the past I've used Radioshack 60 40 rosin-core solder, but I've run out Should I just
- Any way to wire a guitar without soldering? - Harmony Central
It'd be nice, if you're swapping out pups just to see how they sound, to be able to do it without de-soldering and re-soldering several times Is there any GOOD way to wire without soldering? If only temporarily?
- Replacing pickups without soldering - Harmony Central
This nonsense about soldering drives me fuckin' crazy - if you don't absolutely KNOW how to properly use a soldering iron - or if you don't know the difference between a soldering iron a soldering gun - you can do more damage to your equipment than you think Blown caps? Overheated POTS? Bad cold solder joints? Tell me about it
- How easy is it to burn out a pot? - Harmony Central
My soldering iron gets pretty hot, and I've noticed I've been having more trouble than I should wiring and getting things right How easy is it to burn out a pot?
- soldering wires to speaker terminals - Harmony Central
Soldering wires to speaker terminals is one of the easiest soldering jobs to do, but if you don't want to solder then get some crimp-on spade connectors and use them to connect the speaker
- Low heat solder strips. Anybody ever hear of them?
The trick to soldering is to heat the metal of the connection THEN add solder and it will flow around the connection and bond the metals atomically Using a solder strip will 9 times out of ten cause a cold solder joint because you're melting the solder before the metal below is hot enough to bond with it
- Removing Soldering Potentiometers - Harmony Central
If you're just careful with your soldering, copy the connections very carefully with what was already there and then gently tug on your solder connections to make sure they're solid you should be fine In the past several months I've rewired and installed new electronics pickups in two of my guitars
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