Chapter · Workshop
Soldering
Making a through-hole joint, and telling a good one from the four kinds that fail.
- 01Soldering a through-hole joint7 minSolder is pulled into a hot joint, not pushed on with an iron. Everything else on this page — the temperature, the counting, the order you take things away — is in service of that one sentence.
- 02Cold joints and bridges6 minA finished joint is a shallow cone, shiny, with the pad's outline still visible under it. Four other shapes turn up, three of them conduct on the bench, and all four are worth being able to name on sight.
Start at 01 and read down — the order is the order things get easier in. Or take the one with your part in it; every article stands on its own, and links back to whatever it needs.