How To Solder Solid Wires Together

If the wire is stranded twist the strands together with your fingers.

How to solder solid wires together. How to Solder Stranded Wire to Solid Wire Cut the two wires to be soldered together to the appropriate length as needed for your project. After tinning the heads of both header and wire put them together. Youll get a straight wire that has a little sideways bump in it so get a larger shrink tube to isolate it youll need two times the diameter of one wire.

Connect together stranded wire and solid wire as shown in the third picture. Plug the soldering guniron into an electrical outlet and allow it to heat up for about three to five minutes. Heat the joint not the solder.

First place the solder on the tip to allow for melting. Touch the tip of the soldering iron to the copper wires. Make a solid mechanical connection.

The challenge is holding the wires in place long enough for the solder to cure. Apply a small amount of solder flux. The solder should flow freely onto the wire and coat it if its stranded wire the solder should flow into it and fill the wire.

Before soldering make sure there is a good mechanical connection. For the stranded wire using your fingers gently twist the stranded wire in a clockwise direction to bring all the wires together in a semi-tight fashion. For large gauge wires 14awg for an antenna perhaps make a Western Union splice then solder it.

Insert a piece of heat shrink tube on one of the wire. Use a thin solid wire 28 AWG-30 AWG and wrap it around both wires. As the melt will start to cool down the bond will get strong.