So what other "crash-course" type videos would you guys like to see?

I'm an electrical engineer, and this is the best video I've found on KZhome for a primer on soldering. Excellent work!

I'm a 71 year old female who has been soldering here and there for most of my adult life, I never claimed to be an expert. Thank goodness because I just learned a few things that made me realize that I've been doing a couple things wrong. Thank you for posting this video. I certainly do appreciate it because I'm going to attempt to replace the switches in my M570 Trackball mouse.

Pro tip: when you remove you iron DO NOT touch the joint again with the iron, this will cause micro cracks. Put the iron on, heat it up, apply solder, keep it on a little longer and come straight off, don't blow on it/touch it with anything until it cools. Also, remove any factory tinning solder, and add new.

I've been soldering everything imaginable in electronics from vacuum tube boat anchors to surface mount postage stamps going on 65 years. Your video is an excellent introduction to the art of electronics assembly and wiring. 👍

Ive always just winged soldering and learning through trial and error, but this definitely filled all my knowledge gaps. Love all the tips and tricks. Thanks!!

This was great! I've never soldered before and ordered an adapter board for my pi with unsoldered components, because I've always wanted to solder and was determined to do it myself. With your help, I got it right on the first try! Thank you. I can now connect Atari 2600 controllers directly to my RetroPie for a more authentic feel 🙂

i think a useful addition to this would be tinning the iron tip before actually using it to solder for the first time and re-inforcing tinning after you finish (in a production environment you tin much more often). Also static protection should be mentioned as it is not all that hard to ruin an ic with a static discharge.

You explain yourself so well you're a good teacher

This is a great refresher course in soldering. Not soldered anything for almost two decades since my Electronic Engineering days back in college. The last soldering I remember doing was some PCB design from a breadboard test.

Your first tip was crucial to me to learn to solder. I initially thought that you got solder on the tip and almost "painted" it onto the wires. Learning that you heat the wires so that the draw/wick the solder in place was a game changer for me and led to work that was very passable :)

Really glad you mentioned rosin core solder. I've seen so many comments about soldering where people say you have to use flux. I worked for years doing electronic repairs on telecoms and radio gear and before that, electronic assembly. I never once used flux, because all the solder I used was rosin core. Even when I was trained in high-reliability soldering, we never used flux.

I didn't know anything about soldering before your video, now I do. Thanks for a clear, easy to understand video that gave me a very good understanding of basic soldering! Great start for a newbie!!

Finally! A guide that's both broad-spectrum and specific on each individual subject from a reliable source. Thanks a ton!

Hero level video! Exactly what I needed with no BS and a TON of useful information!

I’m retired and just starting out to try to see if I can do some board repairs. This is by FAR the best and most concise tutorial I have seen explaining soldering. Nice job & thank you sir!

A couple of comments that may be useful to newbies. Traditional tin- lead solder that is designed for electronics usage usually contains a rosin flux which is actually a pine tree type product, non toxic, and generally non corrosive and non conductive. The fumes from soldering this type of solder may be mildly irritating to your nose and throat, but the boiling point of lead is much higher than the temperatures you are soldering at and therefore any kind of lead poisoning scenario from the fumes is extremely unlikely, but you should certainly wash your hands after handling it. Lead free solder generally uses a very different type of flux made from organic acids, the fumes of which are extremely unpleasant to breathe and can be potentially toxic. Those specialized lead-free fluxes are also both conductive and corrosive and *must* be thoroughly removed from the circuit board or they can cause problems for the circuitry had some later date. Rosin flux is best dissolved and cleaned away with alcohol, but lead free type fluxes are often water-soluble and may or may not clean off easily with alcohol. Also note that lead free solder is more corrosive to the soldering iron tips than lead solder, partly because of the corrosive effects of organic fluxes and especially because of the higher temperature tip settings necessary in order for lead-free solder to flow well. Regardless of which type of solder you are working with, the soldering iron tips will degrade with time and use, so be sure to buy a couple of spares, and ideally you should buy an arrangement of shapes and sizes. For most electronics work I find that the simple conical, sharply pointed tip as used in this video is not the preferred tip shape. A chisel shape tip with a rounded, blunt end works best for about 95% of my electronics work. Get an assortment of tip sizes and shapes to experiment with. Note that high quality soldering tips are usually made of copper (or sometimes brass) that has been plated with iron or steel. Steel resists the corroding effects of solder and flux much better than plain copper does, and yet still wets to the solder well; copper is a better heat conductor, but plain unplated copper very quickly pits, corrodes and oxidises from the constant heat and chemical effects of the solder and flux. So many of the soldering tips are made in Asia nowadays, probably from a variety of recycled metals, that you might have to try several different brands and sources to get something that lasts a reasonably long time. I do like the brass wool tip cleaner shown in the video here; they work quite well and I have read elsewhere that the traditional wet sponge cleaning technique tends to cause micro fractures in the tip and shortens its life. (The springy brass sponge tends to fling little bits of solder around as you clean/wipe the tip, and so a holder with a hood over the brass wool will help contain the mess). You can use steel wool to clean the tip if absolutely necessary, but with proper tip care, maintenance and suitable temperature settings, steel wool shouldn't be necessary. By the way, the "best" way to turn the tip of the soldering iron so black and oxidised that it doesn't work well for soldering is to use it to melt and fuse plastic parts, repairing cracks and so on; a useful technique, but keep a sacrificial extra tip around just for that use. By the way, *never* scrape a soldering iron tip with a razor blade or take a file to it in order to "clean" it (as shown in some You Tube videos). Never! You will remove the steel plating and the tip will wear out that much faster. You may find it instructive to put a magnet to the soldering iron tip and see if it is magnetic to any degree. A copper or brass tip that is still plated will have at best a very mild magnetic attraction. If it's strongly magnetic then the chances are good that the entire tip is made of steel. If a highly magnetic steel tip still works well for your soldering purposes, that's fine, but generally copper or brass are better heat conducting materials for our purposes.... Regardless, lead-free solder often tends to make a more grainy, crystalline, dull looking solder joint, and the solder joint is likely to break down prematurely if exposed to extreme heat from a power supply resistor or regulator, and interestingly also tends to break down in extreme cold temperatures and form "tin whiskers", aka dendrites, that can short-circuit to adjacent parts or circuit paths and PCB foil traces (as polar explorers and NASA engineers have discovered, the hard way; Google "tin pest"). I personally prefer traditional tin- lead electronic solder with a flux core. Lead free solder doesn't wet and flow as well as lead solder, and is responsible for numerous devices breaking down and failing prematurely and ending up in the landfill. If you are just starting out learning to solder, I recommend that you start with lead solder, and only use a known, name brand product from a reliable source, such as Kester or Weller. Be advised that solder, or the flux inside of it sometimes seems to go bad if it is old and therefore freshly made product is probably better. There's also a lot of variation in lead free alloys and the fluxes they contain. Probably a good idea to buy at least 2 different brands of solder from different sources and see if one is easier to work with or gives you more consistent results. It is also a good idea to buy yourself some separate flux in paste or liquid form; but unfortunately I have seen cases where soldering flux that isn't actually designed for work on electronics is being sold to electronics hobbiists. Always check the label on the bottle to see if it has a precaution against using it for electronics work. The highly acidic ( and corrosive) fluxes designed for soldering copper water pipes are not the same as, and not interchangeable with, fluxes designed for soldering circuit boards and electronic components; nor can plumbing solder be used as a substitute for electronics solder. Be aware that there is a special-purpose "soldering paste" which is a mixture of powdered solder (typically lead-free) and flux, designed specifically for soldering microprocessors with miniature, nearly microscopic pins (or hidden "pins" on the underside of the processor chip), and therefore is not the same as plain soldering flux.

Wow incredibly beyond helpful video. Cleared up decades of confusion in a few minutes. Thank you. I can’t wait to buy a soldering kit and get started on a couple of projects I’ve been putting off for years because of intimidation.

After watching countless soldering videos making it look easy, trying and getting no results whatsoever, this one finally gave me all the information I needed in a clear fashion. I was able to reproduce all the exercises, except that last board on board one, which I'm not interested in at the moment. I have several projects that I had been putting off because of lack of confidence in my soldering, that can now tackle. Thanks so much for this.

This is an excellent video and there just isn't enough videos about soldering. I know voultar has quite a lot of content based around soldering and stuff but, he never really goes into detail about all of the little stuff. You nailed this one, dude.

One of the best soldering videos I've seen. I’m definitely in the 'learner' category and been practicing on one of those £15 oscilloscopes and a radio for roughly the same price. Neither are much good at what they do but it’s a great feeling when something works when you turn it on.

Would love to see a crash course on Desodering! Seems fairly frequent for repairs or changes to fix old electronics. Seems common to add an extra "solder ball" to prevent static or something similar Btw Thanks! Great starter course

I have been soldering for about a year now. Simple cap kit replacements and console mods. Some really good tips that I don’t see others mention. Nice job!!

For 8:30 another method is to use liquid flux to add more fluidity for the solder to melt along with through the hole when heated. Extra tips: 0) Wear eyepro; flying bits from snipping pieces, fumes, general safety. 1) Drag upwards when adequate amount of solder has been melted for a nice cone shape. Using liquid flux helps. 2) After solder has cooled, use a nylon brush plus 99% isopropyl alcohol to clean and shiny the solder. 3) Use the solder to cover the soldering iron tip, and dab into the cleaning container to apply a protective coating to the tip after you're done soldering. 4) Wash hands w/ soap and water every time you're done; don't want an eye infection from rubbing your eyes or face with dirty hands do you? *Correct me if I got anything wrong & I'll edit my comment.

This is the best tutorial on soldering for those who know next to nothing about it. Every other tutorial for beginners I’ve watched assumed the newbie knew what tools and supplies were needed, they just needed to know how to use them. I appreciate that you explained what the specialized substances and materials and what they do in the process.

I’m 4 minutes in and realize this is the exact detail without fluff I’ve been seeking. Thank you. I’m learning a lot and already feel more confident.

I was taught how to solder copper pipe when I was young and i picked it up for electronics in the last year or two. I still feel like i know nothing, so I absolutely love these types or informational videos.

I repair electronics as a side job for some extra money and occasionally do it for local shops. I've been soldering for years and would say i'm pretty good at it but STILL to this day I shy away from soldering jobs because it's such a touchy task BUT worth it if you do them right. You KNOW what you're doing and have even shown me things that I didn't know. I appreciate the video.

This was an awesome video with great content. I feel like the soldering work I did today for my 3D printer was a million times cleaner and considerably quicker. Ended up buying the 853D and it was so much easier to knock out my project. Thanks for all the great information!

Plus a great way to practice soldering and desoldering, we've all got broken electronics at home or come across them in the street (sadly) so you can take them home, open them up and after discharging any and all capacitors then you can work on desoldering components, and then resoldering them onto a stripboard, plus you can practice other techniques like soldering more temperature sensitive components etc, plus you can then save and put aside any large/special components you come by in this process, so at least those broken electronics don't go to waste! =)

I'm currently learning to become an electrical engineer (first year) and we just started with soldering, so this video is a great help! You're explaining everything very well and the fact that you're showing it is of great help. Thank you for the great video c:

Also, thanks Wermy for introducing me into this hobby. I saw the minty pi lite and I was really exited to build it! I enjoy watching your videos! Thanks

Thank you for providing such amazing stuff to your viewers. It's fascinating material. I appreciate all of your efforts. Sincere appreciation!

And just like that, I'm no longer intimidated to start my soldering project. Beyond excellent video! Thank you, Sir. 🙏

Thanks for the video. I've not used a soldering iron in 20 years, and with this handy video I did quite a fiddly ESP32 wiring job and it all came out great first time!

As someone who solders professionally this is a great video! Just a few personal tips and opinions I'd give: First type of solder can make a difference depending on the required specs of a project, I prefer lead for through-board as it tends to be more maleable after cooling whereas lead-free composites are better for surface as it cools quicker and flows better. 11:00 this is usually called stacking and my biggest tip for this is to set an anchor pin in one of the corners. Doing so will make sure all the connections line up properly. If this was a micro connector like what is used in the applewatch you'd reflow or fill the pads first and then heat the solder to allow it to flow through the connector. But those connectors are really thin.

Very educational and helpful video. I really liked the small but important details you shared during it.

Terrific Video TY. Haven’t soldered in years. I just inherited the contents of an early Radio & TV Shop. It sold and repaired both. It’s been preserved and passed down over the years. The shop opened around WW II. Each item resembles a museum piece. Hundreds of radios & TVs. Tens of thousands of repair parts; bulbs, etc..+. It was my Grandfather’s shop. The shop was successful, but he pretty much kept it just for storage and repairs. He’d started installing TVs in hospital rooms. Back then patients paid rent to watch TV. He supplied thousands of TVs and collected rental fees. Here’s something shocking I learned. His TV rental customers were billed by mail. In the 1980s I asked him: “Of those countless customers how many never paid you?” He looked down as if he’d never considered such a thing, paused, then replied, “Honestly Bob, I know it was less than 5, I’d guess 2 or 3.” A different era. As a young man he tried to enlist but he’d been born blind in one eye. He spent the War learning the trade via a mail order correspondence course. He saved everything. The lessons and catalogs are so damn cool. There are even rolled up 6’ x 6’ schematics of early TVs. They’re beautifully artistic, I’m framing a couple. The family folklore goes like this: Grand Pap Ben built his own first TV. In fact the first one in the neighborhood. His parents, my Great Grandparents, had to point this amazing new invention toward the front porch windows to accommodate the overflow of outdoor curiosity seekers. I have his Shop’s working neon sign. The name of the shop circles a 2.5’ clock. We were fortunate, with five generations for years. Forgive me, I’ve gone on too long. I love him and miss him still. TY

I appreciate this video. I was looking at the first iron setup you showed thats on amazon. The one thing you mentioned was the silicone pad, i will remember that when i do go to order the iron setup with the heeat gun. But this video was very educational when it came down to that type of small micro soldering. I have been testing myself with that small of soldering lately with my speaker box controller for my 4wheeler and those tips will also help me out more with my RC trucks and cars when i rework connections. Thank you

I work on guitars (potentiometers, capacitors and switches) and amplifiers and had to learn this the hard way... your wire splice tips were great and turned out really clean, great video!

WoW! I actually stumbled on this video. it's like finding gold on a walk to the park, your explanations are clear and precise and totally easy to understand. wish I had discovered you 12 months ago . Thank you

This is great, thanks! Sometimes i just don't think about something so obvious such as twisting the wires together next to each other. That way is so much easier than trying to twist them together "head to head". ❤

Thanks a lot for sharing! It is so hard nowadays to find a video that is informative, right to the point and not filled with ads/promotions.

Very helpful to a beginner and I haven’t started yet but am sick of not being able to fix my own electronics thank you

I'm getting shoved into soldering a bit abruptly (art tablet usb port disconnected interally), and this is so incredibly helpful. Thank you so much! I'll probably be back to look at more things as I get more adventurous 👀

This is a great introductory video to soldering and exactly what I needed getting into the hoby. Thank you for the crash course

Awesome crash course. I have done a fair bit of soldering, but you just gave me many best practices tips which will make my work shine.

Thanks. I liked some of the nuance you had in this video. I’ve been a hobbyist for a while but your explanations helped me understand a bit better why sometimes it just didn’t work.

Came here to learn soldering basics... This is one of the best tutorial videos I've seen period. Very well spoken, visuals during the explanations, numerous different examples.... Great video sir.,

Thanks for sharing your tips! I’m self-taught and definitely missed some of these things while learning.

I've watched this video in the past, but must not have been ready. I'm back into having the need to efficiently solder, and re-watched this video. A lot of things made more sense to me this go round. Thanks for all the care in the instructions. You, sir, have earned my subscription more than twice over.

Never soldered before, but the projects I'd like to do have some soldering in them and the cost of having others do it ends up being too much for me so I rlly appreciate you making this video.

Wow, short, comprehensive, and to the point. I've been soldering all my life the wrong way. You nailed all my questions. And thank you for the flux demonstration on the raw wires. Turns out, I've been doing it all wrong all along.

You're a lifesaver mate! I had no idea smaller soldering wire existed, yet I've wondered why the new boards always have neatly soldered components, now I Know!

Awesome video man and very helpful. I feel a lot more comfortable going into my project.

Finally: A truly articulate, intelligent, no-nonsense guy, and a very well-done video!.... Give me more!

Solid demonstrations and insight. Exactly what I was looking for. 👍

Great video! You convinced me to finally learn to solder, just went all out and bought the 853d soldering station and some practice boards wish me luck.

Great video, it was a massive amount of help when I started my first project in decades. =) One thing I did run into which you didn't cover in your video was soldering wires onto the legs of components, or pins sticking out of a PCB. My project was a DIY button box, so for the most part I attached the components to the faceplate, and had to solder wires onto the legs of the components. This seemed like something that would be best done using about 3 hands, any tips or tricks? I did find one video where they first attached the solder wire on the leg by heating it up a bit, then cutting off a bit of it so that there's effectively a "stick" of unmelted solder attached to the leg, sticking out. Do this for each leg, then when you attach the wire you press the wire against the leg with the solder, and once they heat up the solder melts and the flux draws it in place. This did make things significantly easier, since I didn't have to try and keep 4 things steady at the same time.

This is going to be very helpful for me at work, as I'll be doing a soldering training course sometime soon. Thanks for the excellent explanations of these basic techniques!

Great video. Very informative and easy to understand without being long winded. Thanks

tip tinner actually shortens the life of your tips. best method to preserve your tips is to melt a blob of solder onto the tip just as it's cooling down so it covers the tip and forms a blob on the end. when you go to use the tip again it will be perfect.

Short, simple, and very informative. Much thanks

Fantastic. Very informative and all topics covered very well. Thank you for creating this

Thanks! This was more advanced than the things I need to know (I just need to solder switches and 3 LEDs to a mechanical keyboard), but when you recommended the Yihua branded iron/station, I felt more confident in the fact that I’ve been looking to purchase the Yihua 939D+ station. I keep being worried that spending only $53 will hurt more than help, but I truly don’t plan to solder all that often. I used a $12 wood burning pen my first time soldering (on a beginner’s practice kit) and it worked. Not perfectly, but it worked 😂 I just don’t want to ruin my actual projects, so I feel better seeing the recommendation.

I'm studying this in highschool right now and this video's been a great help in realising I solder in the incorrect way you described. Thanks for the advice!

Great demo mate. This was my only exposure to how to solder and it was enough to have a go and fix my device. Very happy

Thank you. Seriously. Nothing like learning from a person who knows what there doing and takes pride in there craft.

I just found your channel today. Thanks for this great primer on soldering. Loved the basic step by step guidance.

Great video!! Building an FPV drone and I have never soldered before except for 1 practice board. I feel a lot better about it now.

Awesome, thank you so much. I'm a total noob in soldering and I've come to try it on my recent projects. Haha, I'm persistent so I always manage to connect the thing but blimey, so much time, effort and material waste haha ! Hopefully I'll rock the next session thanks to you ;)

Super good video, was looking for something like this for a friends who wants to start. Maybe 2 things to add: lead free solder temp is higher, and a fume extractor. Cheers!

Hey this cleared up a few things for me that I was doing wrong and my soldering is so much better now, thank u :)

You should only get 63/37 solder, particularly for beginners because it has no plasticy state, its sometimes called eutectic, because it goes straight from liquid to solid and vice versa. 60/40 is close, and will work if you are a little bit more careful, but the easy/best is always going to be 63/37

This was one of the most useful videos I've seen on KZhome. I have real struggles with soldering, and now I know why. I have been doing it wrong.

I've been soldering for years and trying to up my game. This was a major help. Thanks!

I did Soldering for my second year university project at UTS. It was very interesting to me. I give an interview in a company later where Soldering was heavily applied. I used to by electronic parts from Jaycar electronics in townhall, sydney. It's good to see your video.

Great video! Always wanted to solder and am about to embark on this new exciting hobby. This video was super informative!

Clearly explained and demonstrated in quick fashion. Thanks Wermy.

I love this channel. I got a soldering iron for my birthday and I love it. Thanks for the new hobby, wermy, and i hope you do well in these trying times.

Thank you, I am in the planning stages of building an amplifier and I haven’t used a solder iron in years. Great video!

really helpful tutorial, ive done some soldering, but not a lot, and im getting a new iron for christmas, so its really good to get these tips, especially the little details like how you arent supposed to put the solder directly on the iron, really helpful!

This was very helpful in teaching the fundamentals of soldering for a small project i've been working on. Thanks mate

Perfect. Exactly what I needed to learn before jumping into my hydroponic automation system! Thank you :D

Good stuff! Interesting technique for making super flat connections between 2 boards. I tried something similar in the past for connecting 2 addressable LED strips, and it was honestly a little hit-or-miss. When you make a cut in those strips, there's always a chance that the data line will get bridged to power or ground, ensuring that the LEDs after that connection don't work properly. I'm thinking one possible way to foolproof that board-to-board connection is to use a very low hot air on the rework station or the electric mini hot plate Adafruit sells to preheat all those pads. Or find some way to squeeze in a little solder paste (syringe?) into each through hole, then use hot air on the sandwich. Or maybe a method similar to BGA soldering: tin the bottom pads first, clean it, flux it, put Raspberry Pi on top, and proceed with hot air. Anyone who solders every day should use a filter or good ventilation, especially if they're using lead-free. You really don't want to be inhaling flux vapor. One thing I've learned from Rob back when he was doing Sparkfun product videos: Always leave a blob of solder on the tip of your iron when you're not using it. Making a habit of this will always keep the tip tinned (important for heat conduction), it will prolong its useful life and you won't need to use tip tinner which is designed to remove heavy oxidation and really shouldn't be used regularly. If the oxidation isn't horrible you can re-tin a tip with some solder wire and a little gel flux applied to it.

for those who want to get into it but don't like soldering, I was the same but when I got a minty pi lite kit, I loved it. It may take a few times to get strong connections, but once you do it a few times, you will get the hang of it.

Our teacher showed us this in electronics class and it was really helpful, thank you!

Very informative, after 4 days of practice I am now able to solder much more efficient as of now. and I enjoy to work that is related to soldering. Thank you so much, Please continue to upload more video such as this or any kinds of project.

This is the best tutorial I have seen for a novice like me. Very clear and very to the point. Well done and thank you for sharing!

Thank you for this video man ive been soldering a little bit doing radios for freinds and stuff and I kind of went into it blind it worked but took me a while and this video cleared up a lot of stuff I plan on re soldering some leds on my gauge cluster for my g35 so im going to buy a junkyard one to test on first but this video really made me understand it a lot better and now I know which rig im going to buy thanks bro!

Hey! I just wanted to say that I've been collecting and tinkering with vintage computers since I was a kid in the mid 1990's, but I somehow never developed any meaningful soldering skills and never learned how to recap anything... until this week. During the pandemic I picked up a couple Apple II systems - one is a IIe (non-Enhanced) and the other is a true original Apple II (though a very late example). I haven't tested the II yet, but all my early tests with the IIe were frustrating - it would power on, but frequently glitched out, and my Floppy Emu wouldn't work correctly when connected using a known-good drive card. Then the RIFA cap blew, filling my kitchen with magic smoke, and I knew it was time. I bought a quality soldering iron, a desoldering pump, an Apple II PSU Cap Kit from Console5, along with various accessories and watched this video a few times while waiting for all the parts to arrive. Last night I dove in, and after a few hours of slow progress, I'd replaced the blown RIFA along with every other capacitor in the PSU... AND IT WORKED! The IIe now boots smoothly from my Floppy Emu, and doesn't seem to be struggling with wonky power issues anymore. I'm super happy. Thank you for making this video - it really helped!

Excellent video, helped get me from never holding an iron to finishing my first electronics project. The one thing I'll say that I'm kinda surprised wasn't mentioned in the video and doesn't seem to be very frequent in the comments: keep things ventilated! The wisps of smoke that come off the iron are mostly flux fumes, and they can cause chronic respiratory issues (namely asthma). The lead in leaded solder is most dangerous if flakes of it (like, say, the ones that tend to come off the tip of your iron when you clean it) are ingested or inhaled, but soldering with it also produces some lead-based fumes that are equally dangerous with enough exposure. Make sure the space you're working in is reasonably open; open a door if you're in the garage, a window if you're in an office, etc. If you can, use a carbon-filter-based smoke absorber to pull those fumes away from your face and to keep the air cleaner. If you don't have one (or ideally even if you do), use a desk or household fan behind or to the side of you to push air away from you and toward the open window/ventilation.

Thank you so much for this, you made this so easy to understand! I'm trying to fix my dryer controller board without having to pay $200-$600 or buy a new dryer. :(

Yeah I've been soldering since I was like 10 with my dad, and I didn't know most of this. You just upped my solder game BIG TIME. Thank you

This is a a great channel!! I'm learning electric engineering because I want to design and build an analog synth. Idk if it's your area of expertise, but a video on analog circuits/synthesis would be cool!

Thanks for the information. I greatly appreciate videos that are to the point without a lot of unnecessary information. Great video.

Many years ago I took a soldering course called PACE. It was designed to teach efficient, effective soldering. A story we were told was that when they were building the first space shuttle, they built a mock-up, then had the techs take the PACE course and do another mock-up. The difference between the two mock-ups was 2,000 pounds of solder...

Thank you for an up-to-date tutorial. Need more time on solder iron tip selection, temperatures for size of connections to be made. Minimizing time soldering iron is on the pad as not to lift the pad. More heat = less time on scene. There's a fine balance. Flux is your friend. Use it! Practice with a practice board till you get the hang of it. replacing components can get expensive if you damage them.

Glad I stumbled upon this channel and specifically, this video. I just bought a venerable Nakamichi SR-2E receiver with the famous Nelson Pass "STASIS" amp (c.1986, EXC+, $120). My plan is to buy the capping kit ($60) and recap the whole thing, bringing the unit back to better than original spec. Aside from some TLC to the innards, this tutorial is a big help in preparation for this DIY job.

I’m 76, haven’t done any soldering since Exploritory Shop in High School…this tutorial is very well done!