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Soldering

Soldering is the cornerstone skill of many electronics projects and we certainly have plenty of great soldering tutorials, custom solder tips, tools and hacks, and great ideas on Instructables that will take even the expert's soldering skills to the next level. Use this guide to learn how to wire it up, solder it up, and make your next project, bleep, blink, tick, spin, shoot and fly.

How to Solder by noahw

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Guide to field Soldering by stone3408

What not to do when soldering by Ghondi

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Soldering underneath chips by rgbphil

Solder Fume Extractor by Dr. Solomon

Soldering Station by StepsoftheSun

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Intro into SMD Soldering by jrgcool35

Wiring Pen by neelandan

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Soldering Fume Extractor by AleGuy

42 comments

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Dec 28, 2008. 9:31 AMMr.Ownage says:

How about making a guide How to make a soldering iron out of a radio transitor, a toster and some duck tape? PS: never forget the power of the DUCK TAPE!!!!!!!!!

Jan 10, 2009. 12:34 PMDYLEGO says:

I would call that a waste of money when you can just go to radioshack and buy a Soldering Iron for $10. Plus, how would you make toast? What if you ran out of duct tape? Then you'd have none for your other projects... DYLEGO

Nov 28, 2010. 1:34 PM

sillyzombie666 says:

yup i just got one there for 6 99 and it was a 30 watt

Jul 18, 2011. 9:18 AM

pfred2 says:

It has been almost a year, so how is you iron holding up for you? I see you're talking in the past tense about it already. You get what you pay for you know? I've had a few Rat Shack irons over the years myself and none are still in working order or any were too good to begin with either.

Jul 18, 2011. 11:41 AM

sillyzombie666 says:

i've already swapped the tip on it but still works fine, i got a second at christmas and finally used that one last night for a game cube repair but that ended in disaster since it was to far wrecked. but for under $10 you cant go wrong on the radio shack irons. the stores near me tend to have a bigger selection now they ever have soldering led kits and some micro controllers

Jan 15, 2009. 6:51 PMmmould03 says:

WTF do you mean run out of duck tape? If you run out, you let yourself get WAY too low. And anyway, if you you do it right, you can keep the toaster functional...make breakfast while you solder - Multitasking 101.

Jan 15, 2009. 8:01 PMDYLEGO says:

i dont think i need to eat lead-flavored toast, thanks...

Apr 13, 2011. 11:40 AMshannonlove says:

The Romans used lead as flavoring so its taste isn't unpleasant. On the other hand the Romans' favorite condiment was garum, a "sauce" made by rotting fish whole in salt brine, so maybe we shouldn't take our culinary clues from them.

Nov 7, 2010. 9:48 PMmayur.phadte says:

Hahaha
it is really surprising how people argue to prove their point and this is what makes this site sweet and fun!

Jan 16, 2009. 12:51 PMMr.Ownage says:

Emmmm I dont think that taste good but if you were dying of hunger...

Mar 6, 2009. 3:42 PMRadioactive_Legos says:

...it would kill you anyway because lead is poisonous.

Jul 18, 2011. 9:22 AM

pfred2 says:

Lead isn't exactly arsenic ingested. It could lead to developmental problems over a long term of exposure, if you're still developing that is. By and large lead is a pretty innocuous substance though for adults. Unless you catch a projectile of it in a bad place traveling at a high enough velocity i.e. get shot, then lead poisoning can kill you!

Oct 16, 2010. 12:16 PMSaturn V says:

Only in large enough ammounts is lead poisonous. You can have some lead in your system, but you still need to be careful.

Jan 15, 2009. 7:07 PMMr.Ownage says:

That's what I call A nice comment and a nice guy! You see you can be nice with people that wont hurt you!

Jan 12, 2009. 3:24 PMMr.Ownage says:

You know what a joke is dude? XD

Jan 12, 2009. 3:46 PMDYLEGO says:

not much of a joke... plus, if you knew what a joke was, you'd see there was one hidden in my reply.

Jan 13, 2009. 2:34 PMMr.Ownage says:

"Plus, how would you make toast?" You see? I found it =P

Jul 18, 2011. 9:29 AM

pfred2 says:

"What not to do when soldering" by Ghondi has gone missing!

From:
http://www.instructables.com/id/What-not-to-do-when-soldering/

"This instructable has been removed by the author."

Awww!

It looked like a fun one too. Just thought someone should know. Guide update maybe?

Mar 5, 2009. 8:09 PMqballcat says:

has a hot glue gun-esque soldering iron been invented? if not im gonna invent one (like that will happen) but really do they exist?

Mar 2, 2010. 12:59 AMlasersage says:

OK after some research apparently they do exist, but cost a lot. I'm sure you could make your own for less

http://www.hakko.com/english/products/hakko_374.html

Feb 26, 2010. 5:36 AMlasersage says:

that is a great idea, no more needing a third hand! Kind of like a really tiny mig welder right?

Jul 4, 2009. 10:21 AMIridium7 says:

you can get something similar http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/b70c/

May 12, 2009. 12:33 PMsharlston says:

i made one

May 12, 2009. 3:12 PMqballcat says:

post an ible, i would buy (or make) that in a second

Mar 22, 2012. 9:31 PMTacticalTrumpet says:

YES!

Feb 26, 2009. 4:28 PMBert99 says:

I learned how to solder

Dec 12, 2008. 3:15 PM

=SMART= says:

Cool ! blimey noah your like a crazed guide machine !! i dont know how you do so much !! its really cool ! i've found so many cool ibles through your guides :D thanks !!

Jan 10, 2009. 10:17 AMDYLEGO says:

Noahw doesn't actually make the guides. Noahw is just like a middleman. You tell him what you want to make a guide of, and if he likes it, he lets you make it. Then it is posted under his name...

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Jan 10, 2009. 6:35 PM

noahw says:

I'm no middleman! Those guys jack up prices, and I'm a staunch supporter of buying wholesale. Only admins ca

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Jan 10, 2009. 6:45 PM

noahw says:

Weird, my entire comment didn't post. Anyway, as I was saying...only the Instructables staff can write guides right now. All the ones I posted under my own name are my own. As =SMART= commented, I'm a guide machine!

Jan 11, 2009. 3:17 AM

=SMART= says:

you wanna make me an overseas guide maker :P

Jan 10, 2009. 7:23 PMDYLEGO says:

Wait, so you've stopped allowing users to create guides? Why'd you do that? I guess that's why the only guides I've seen recently are by you and fungusamungus...

Jan 10, 2009. 10:33 AM

=SMART= says:

No the ones under his name are his, i made a guide and thats under my name

Jan 10, 2009. 12:32 PMDYLEGO says:

You reply mysteriously quickly... Are you sure you're not....................................................

A SPY???????

Dec 12, 2008. 7:27 PM

LinuxH4x0r says:

Having fun with the guides tonight?

Dec 27, 2008. 9:45 AMAnarchistAsian says:

it's teh noo trend, mah Linux man

Dec 27, 2008. 10:47 AM

LinuxH4x0r says:

I'll do one.....eventually

Dec 27, 2008. 10:54 AMAnarchistAsian says:

i don't really see the point, it's other peoples ibles, so i'd only do it if i was really bored, but if i was that bored, i'd probably do something else, like memorize pi to 30 digits, like i did yesterday...

w00 w00!!!!! go asians!!!!!!!!

Dec 27, 2008. 1:59 PMomnibot says:

coz it makes guides to several on teh same subject?

Dec 27, 2008. 7:02 PMAnarchistAsian says:

well, it makes sense to look at, but it seems pointless to make them, because anyone could, and it's other peoples ibles....

dats mah point, ya dig?

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