Aerotronics "Solder a shielded wire"

[@Cdaprod]

Love the technique of pulling the wires out through the shield. Thanks for that!!

[@foesfly3047]

I envy your precise and steady hands. You are an artisan with the pencil iron ♠️

[@tyke23vids]

Your solder-fu is impressive. This was super useful!

[@foesfly3047]

“Solder-fu…” Hahaha, good one!

[@dannymorgenstern1654]

Great instruction, thanks! I'm well acquainted with solder sleeves, and a couple different techniques for using them; however, there's room for error if they aren't used correctly. The technique you demonstrated leaves little room for error and likely results in a more streamlined harness when numerous pigtails are added to a connector.

[@tedwaltman1]

Jeff...nice job on your video. Nice, crisp, video. I appreciate your excellent use of the black background to focus/highlight the overall process. Well done!

[@FourT6and22]

Nice video. I do prefer to leave the shield intact around the conductors, though. Then you simply solder another lead around the shield like a ring and heat shrink all of that. Keeps the shield intact right up to the end of the conductors instead of leaving 6 inches bare. The shield is there to block noise after all. Stripping it away sort of defeats the purpose. Also soldering a separate lead around the shield instead of "tacking" the ground connection is much stronger.

[@loyndsy]

Thanks for posting as I'm making new p leads for my 0-200

[@hanearlpark]

Wow. Serious virtuosity.

[@365Condoms]

what is "an inch" ?

[@sjb1957]

It is one of the many standard length measurement units still used in the USA. The others include feet, yards and miles, because it would be beneath them to use the same single metric unit that is used everywhere else. Americans love to spend their time working with multiple units, awkward fractions, multiplication and division by 12, 3, 36, 1760, 5280, etc. This is how they achieve productivity.

[@365Condoms]

@@sjb1957thanks. so you reckon it beats the metric system because you can achieve bigger productivity with imperial system?

[@1967250s]

Navy trained Avionics tech here, worked on everything from MD80s to C130s, 767, 757, 737, on and on. I have never used, or would be allowed to use, a solder joint like this. Any shielded wire would get the ground wire with at least 1 /4" join. That is way too short on the ground strip back, and is probably a brittle joint since you are moving it as it solidifies, don't care how carefully you are trying not to move it. And modern solder splices completely make this an outdated.

[@Crunk99ify]

Remember, solder is an electrical connection, not a mechanical. Also, Isodyne backshells replace solder sleeves now.

[@LTVoyager]

@@Crunk99ify Who told you that? Solder is both electrical and mechanical. What do you think holds PCB components in place?

[@foesfly3047]

I thought the same thing about the creation of a brittle joint in the soldered shield. If I used this method, I’d be extra careful to leave a significant portion of the twisted shield/braid unsoldered. I would also add a second layer of heat shrink over this section to add support (add some resistance to flex) to the joint. But we aircraft maintainers can certainly obsess over which hairs to split.