In house use the skills of soldering are quite useful, often there is a need to repair the small equipment, to connect wires of lighting fixtures and to make other, line repair. If you decided to master ability to solder independently and asked a question - how to learn to solder, then it is worth beginning with preparatory work.
Work requires a set of devices:
- The soldering iron – the tool which consists of a copper core, a heating element, the insulating handle and a cord with a fork.
- Solder is alloy of tin and lead which it is easy to melt.
- Gumboil – rosin (the pine purified pitch) or ready structures most often use, are intended for a zaluzhivaniye of the accustomed to drinking parts.
- The support under the soldering iron – is necessary to put the soldering iron when it is not used.
How to learn to solder from scratch?
If the soldering iron appeared in hands for the first time, then it is worth preparing it for soldering, for this purpose it is necessary to grind a sting of the tool and to cover with solder. Take a file and square a keen edge to a condition of the plane 1 mm wide, and the main part file klinovidno at an angle 30-40 degrees. If on a core there is an oxide, then she should be moved away by means of the same file or an emery paper.
The covering of its working part solder will become the second stage of preparation of the soldering iron, for this purpose turn on the tool in network and wait for the necessary extent of heating. When color of a core reddish it becomes possible to start processing – touch with a sting a piece of rosin so that it extended on all surface, at the same time there will be active smoke (it is normal). After the first covering it is necessary to put the following which will be from solder – melt an alloy piece a sting and progress pound it on a core surface that there were no passed places, it is possible to pound about a wooden surface.
Preparation is ended, it is possible to begin trial soldering, the skills more will be fulfilled, the more qualitatively there will be connections.
Try to connect for a start two ends of a wire, having smoothed out them previously from fat and oxide a knife or a small emery paper, warm up them the soldering iron. Then apply gumboil on junctions, take a small amount of solder on a sting of the hot soldering iron and, helping it to spread, grease the connected parts of provodok, connect them together and a propayayta solder already close wires.