Improves wetting: Flux helps molten solder flow smoothly (or “wet”) across the surfaces, promoting even coverage and a strong ...

Whether it's for computer repair or gadget modification, soldering is an invaluable skill to have, and you can learn to solder with Instructables' introductory guide. We post many tutorials that ...

A lot of the DIY projects we feature require soldering, which unlike soldiering, doesn’t usually involve loss of life, but is still painful as crap. Instructables has a guide on soldering for ...

Ultrasonic soldering is a significant technique used for flux-less soldering onto difficult to solder materials including glass, ceramics, aluminum, stainless steel, molybdenum, ITO films and silicone ...

SMD soldering – At first, I tinned all the circuit board pads for the SMD chips before trying to mount them. That was a mistake. With both pads for chip tinned, heating up one end of the chip caused ...

I've been playing around with some arduino projects on breadboards, but I now need to do a bit of soldering. Enough to build some simple circuits out of verro (?) board, populate an arduino ...

Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic iron and invest in a soldering station. My RadioShack digital station has served me well for the better part of 20 ...

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iFixit is renowned for giving you the tools and knowledge to fix electronics yourself—saving you money and scratching your DIY itch. Now it’s creating the portable soldering iron to end all soldering ...