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Step 3Soldering the Angel Wire
Now, slip a piece of heat shrink tubing over the end of your EL wire and push it back a few inches form the tip.
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Next, wrap your copper tape around the colored PVC sleeve.
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Your wire should now have the tape wrapped around the PVC. Next, pull the angel wires back and solder onto the copper tape. Make sure you melt the solder against the hot copper tape, not by simply pushing it onto the tip of the hot soldering iron. Make sure you hold the angel wires down with the tip of the solder as the liquid solder dries so that the wires stay fused to the copper tape.
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Now your wire should look like this. If your wire matches what's in the picture, then go on to the next step.
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Next, wrap your copper tape around the colored PVC sleeve.
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Your wire should now have the tape wrapped around the PVC. Next, pull the angel wires back and solder onto the copper tape. Make sure you melt the solder against the hot copper tape, not by simply pushing it onto the tip of the hot soldering iron. Make sure you hold the angel wires down with the tip of the solder as the liquid solder dries so that the wires stay fused to the copper tape.
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Now your wire should look like this. If your wire matches what's in the picture, then go on to the next step.
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Jul 26, 2008. 2:54 PM
cyberpageman
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cyberpageman
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Great Instructable! I didn't have any copper tape, so I cut a two-inch (5 cm) piece of multistranded lamp cord wire, and pulled out three or four strands. I wrapped these around the outer insulated jacket with the fine wires underneath, and twisted the wrapped wire in a pigtail so it wouldn't fall off. Then I soldered the copper wire together, and cut off the pigtail. It's not as nice as the copper tape, but it works.
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