How To Make Your Own Soldering Wire

With this jewelry lesson on good binding wire techniques a foundation is laid where correct binding wire practices and tricks are taught.

How to make your own soldering wire. Use good quality sharp wire cutters dykes for cutting the cable. Using jump rings is probably the easiest way. Wire cap connectors provide their own insulation though you need to make sure that there isnt any bare wire visible.

I just cut a piece of a lamp wire i had lying around and i stripped it it was so old that it stripped easily. This can be done with electrical tape or insulation wraps as well as shrink-to-fit insulation sleeves that you fit over the join and then apply heat to shrink. Too much or too little flux will cause problems with the solder attaching to the parts.

I extended the accessory wire slightly by soldering and heat shrinking another 8 inches of 18-gauge Red wire to the one Pioneer included Step 3. On the other side connect the red wire to the nichrome wire at the base. You will first start off with a short length less than a foot of thick braided copper wire.

Finally add a piece of heatshrink to the bottom and youre all done. Watch out for the hot iron while youre. The soldering iron tips created in this instructable are made starting from 6 AWG solid copper electrical wire and these tips are are approximately 4 mm 532 inch in diameter.

A Dremel tool with a good cutoff wheel can also be used. Antique if desired. Plug in the iron wait and wait for it to heat up wait some more while your work piece warms up.

All you need to make your own solder wick is a piece of stranded copper wire or copper coaxial cables braid actually the coaxial cables braid would work better and a coat of flux and its it. Important binding wire twist and tension with good flame control improves soldering skill and speed. This gives you a good insight into the to technical teaching methodology.