AMS--Soldering 101 class--the swamp deepens........

Can AMS teach eSGEe to solder?

  • BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no....just......no

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Maybe, but its gonna hurt

    Votes: 9 32.1%

  • why when its easier to buy Hackmaster or Drumoid sammiches and have them do it?

    Votes: 7 25.0%

  • duct tape is the new solder

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Hey BRIAN look eSGEe can SOLDER!

    Votes: 4 14.3%

  • teach the giraffe to solder its faster

    Votes: 8 28.6%
  • Total voters
    28
Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
Chili I finished this up yesterday View attachment 45254
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Nice, Mitch. I have 2 porches or one wraparound porch to build. Leaky roof to fix, 2 sheds to build, one to tear down. About 600 feet of chain link fence to install. 1 more shed to knock down and rebuild, 1 other garage shed to Beef up structure on an open end that is like 12 x8 and the bottoms of the wall are splaying out. And this doesn't even scratch the surface on paying jobs LOL
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Nice, Mitch. I have 2 porches or one wraparound porch to build. Leaky roof to fix, 2 sheds to build, one to tear down. About 600 feet of chain link fence to install. 1 more shed to knock down and rebuild, 1 other garage shed to Beef up structure on an open end that is like 12 x8 and the bottoms of the wall are splaying out. And this doesn't even scratch the surface on paying jobs LOL
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Wow Chili I don’t really know what to say, the deck was the last thing I did at this residence.
Brian and I formed, and then framed the laundry room next to the deck, we shored and shortened an existing trellis, matched the elevation of the siding on the west elevation.
Then installed siding on the back of the house and the laundry room . But not in that order ,, the back of the house was a change by the owner !!
I am not a contractor, I work by the hour.
When I finished the steps to get up to the deck and started to put the top on the homeowner wanted to extend it by one more piece of decking.
Countless changes and no plans.
But I think it came out quite well.
Cheers to getting all your projects done.
Mitch
 
Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
Wow Chili I don’t really know what to say, the deck was the last thing I did at this residence.
Brian and I formed, and then framed the laundry room next to the deck, we shored and shortened an existing trellis, matched the elevation of the siding on the west elevation.
Then installed siding on the back of the house and the laundry room . But not in that order ,, the back of the house was a change by the owner !!
I am not a contractor, I work by the hour.
When I finished the steps to get up to the deck and started to put the top on the homeowner wanted to extend it by one more piece of decking.
Countless changes and no plans.
But I think it came out quite well.
Cheers to getting all your projects done.
Mitch
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Thank you, Mitch. Yeah, I don't ever know how far I will ever get on my progress on OLD houses like the fiancee's from 1850's. Mine from 1900 and all they require. I almost forgot the worst of my other troubles in caring for 2 aging parents whose health are failing either physically or mentally.

As Voxy knows, my respect goes out to those such as you and he, or even like when RVA got his new offices all set up and done, Dono and his remodeling/moves, Grant and his fights with his Bro in law and the local permit people etc.
Your jobs look like great skill and good results, Mitch. Top notch stuff. Cheers to you too bro.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Thank you, Mitch. Yeah, I don't ever know how far I will ever get on my progress on OLD houses like the fiancee's from 1850's. Mine from 1900 and all they require. I almost forgot the worst of my other troubles in caring for 2 aging parents whose health are failing either physically or mentally.

As Voxy knows, my respect goes out to those such as you and he, or even like when RVA got his new offices all set up and done, Dono and his remodeling/moves, Grant and his fights with his Bro in law and the local permit people etc.
Your jobs look like great skill and good results, Mitch. Top notch stuff. Cheers to you too bro.
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Thanks brother I appreciate your kind words and support.
It’s what has paid the bills for me for longer than I care to remember.
And I am sure that Grant and Don O have driven past or gone into some of the work I have done over the years, because I was a commercial framer for most of my life.
Cheers
 
eSGEe said:
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oh this looks promising....................................................
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You would be surprised that:
There is speaker cables made in China, and they use aluminum wire.
They glue the wire to the plugs with "wire glue." Since aluminum cannot be soldered....
And these cables have a "lifetime warrantee."
No I am not making this up, there actually is cables like that.

And the cable jacket says: "pure copper."
 
eSGEe said:
May cause EYE irritation..........BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Last Lesson #5
Tinning
If all the parts are clean as above : Melt some fresh solder onto the tip of the soldering iron, before you use it each time.
The fresh solder will help increase heat to transfer from the tip to whatever you are soldering.

Each time you solder : tin the tip first. This causes heat to flow much faster from the solder iron.
Then solder the connection.
Next, clean the tip again.
Then tin the tip again, for the next solder connection.

As you can see: as you use the soldering iron:
It is a constant cycle of cleaning, then tinning the tip.
Clean (wipe tip) - Tin (fresh solder) - Solder - clean - Tin - Solder
Repeated over and over.

When the tip is not tinned : the efficiency of heat is lost.
Heat will not transfer from the tip, to the part ---and the soldering will work poorly or not at all.
 
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Ok here is a good question to all folks who have soldered more than a time or 2.

I know my answer because I am ambidextrous at nearly everything. But how about you guys? Do you always hold your iron with the same hand and feed solder with the opposite hand and never switch up? Or do you do like me and switch depending on whichever direction is easier to access something?
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Ok here is a good question to all folks who have soldered more than a time or 2.

I know my answer because I am ambidextrous at nearly everything. But how about you guys? Do you always hold your iron with the same hand and feed solder with the opposite hand and never switch up? Or do you do like me and switch depending on whichever direction is easier to access something?
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I hold the solder with my teeth.
The Giraffe holds the iron.
(do not follow this example at home)
 
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