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A beginners guide to learning how to hand solder.
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[@umloginqualquer]

Dave, another good tip you've forgotten to mention: solder tip in -> solder in -> solder out -> solder tip out. The soldering iron should always be the first thing to touch the joint, and the last thing to leave the joint. I realize you've done it all the time during your video, but the beginners could certainly not notice this detail unless we bring their attention to it. (I'd also like you viewers to upvote my comment, so more people could pay attention to this detail.)

[@joesupplebruns262]

THANK U

[@ifohancroft]

Just like nesting HTML elements: The last thing on the join (the last open element with an opening tag) is the one you remove first (the element you close first with a closing tag)

[@nikolaribic7956]

I just started soldering (lovin' it) and I will agree that this seems to be the most basic and important principal. However, the god-awful mess that's left behind when you take the solder tip out before the solder is a pretty good indication that you've done it backwards.

[@Chillingworth]

Pretty easy to realize this when you start soldering because you feel your solder wire stick to the joint.

[@stokepogue]

very helpful thanks

[@Abrokensword]

I have watched at least a dozen Soldering videos on youtube and I swear this is the only one that made it clear to me what I was doing wrong. Now my work is coming out perfect and pretty.

[@argent2020]

+Abrokensword Did that included you not asking your teacher at the lab how you did?.

[@Abrokensword]

argent2020 You are making alot of dumb assumptions without knowing anything about me buddy.

[@argent2020]

Abrokensword Actually not, may be, but the one who sounds Dumb it's you with your comment. Not big deal anyway, lol, I got it now, you're a self trained Radio Shack, Bubba Buddy. XD

[@jeffhaltiwanger2430]

+argent2020 you must need a life because apparently harassing people on you tube is all that yours consists of.

[@argent2020]

Heffy Montana That's not harassing, unless telling it like it is means harassing to you. Who are you anyway?.

[@LightFykki]

Even after 8 years, still the best soldering tutorial on youtube.

[@jbuddyman]

Sir, this is probably the best soldering tutorial out there. Thanks for uploading a very helpful video.

[@Sizifus]

I'm so glad about finding this guy. His videos are spot on and gave me plentiful of useful information on electronics. And they are just fun to watch.

[@nerdyneedsalife8315]

When you're so good at soldering that when you demonstrate a bad solder,it isn't a bad solder

[@KevinGaddy67]

This makes me want to re-solder all my old projects. The best tutorial on soldering I have seen so far.

[@TheThore]

Why are there 70 thumbs down? The tutorial was really nice and everything is correct. Nothing wrong in this tutorial.

[@NikolasOldSchool]

Maybe 75 peoples clicked the wrong buton...

[@TheThore]

Even on the best videos you can find thumbs down. Maybe some ppl like to click through thousands of videos and click thumb down for fun.

[@erikthegodeatingpenguin2335]

TheThore That would be such a waste of someone's life.

[@TheThore]

I met somebody who tries to fool everybody down who is on the internet. He admitted it. So I think there ARE such morons who have too much free time....

[@erikthegodeatingpenguin2335]

Oh god.

[@dklopp]

I just finished part 1 and part 2, and I want to thank you for putting in the time to make these videos. These will actually help me with both my job (mech. eng.) and personal hobbies (currently retrofitting a milling machine to CNC....requiring custom wiring harnesses with solder cup connectors, so I'm glad that was covered). I was getting frustrated this morning while getting poor solder joints on a DB9 connector, so I wanted to learn more about soldering in general. I knew my iron was crummy (am about to purchase a temp controlled station), but I didn't know all of the other little setup details you covered - especially about different tips. The only thing I could tell was missing was how to apply the flux separate from everything else. I never thought I would say that I'm excited to rework my connectors....but I am! Thanks for the info....I'm going to continue on watching more of your videos.

[@strannik8234]

Thank you very much! Wonderful guide! I am from Russia and I do not understand English well, but in general this did not prevent me from understanding the video. Not long ago, I began to engage in amateur radio and experiment with a soldering iron / soldering station - a clear demonstration of working with modern soldering irons, solders, fluxes with good comments - this is what I was looking for. In the Russian-language segment of KZbin, I could not find such a thing. Thank you once again for the wonderful guides and wonderful channel!

[@barnyardstory]

Been soldering for 40 yrs, I don't need no stinking video on soldering! 34 min later learns half dozen new facts about soldering. Dave you are awesome!

[@liquidthex]

This was a great introduction to soldering, I've only ever soldered wires together but after watching these tutorials I soldered my first teensy arduino board to another board successfully. Thank you EEVblog!

[@MrFrobbo]

What a great series, thanks Dave. In my experience (20 years PTH and SMD) I find tinning the tip up front or a slight tip tin just before adding solder to the opposite side helps the heat dissipation and joint. I notice you do this subconsciously but not actually highlight. Fantastic tuition, thank you.

[@dcholmes1969]

These are great tutorials! My electrical engineer father is no longer with me to teach me soldering. The closest he got was showing me how to solder copper pipes to connect a water heater in my first home. Much larger components and therefore we used a torch and very large diameter solder. However, the "heat up the joint first, then apply solder to the heated joint" still applies. God Bless you sir for taking time from your life to freely share your knowledge.

[@PantheonLincoln]

I quite like his enthusiasm. I'm about to start assemble a kit for a guitar distortion pedal, and I have VERY little soldering experience, so this was VERY helpful, and the tone of it is not too boring!

[@Burningmace]

I've been soldering for about 3 years and have been struggling like hell to get decent joints. I was always taught to "tin" the iron with solder first, and to use a lower temperature (e.g. 280C). After switching to your method my joints are infinitely better!

[@Michael_Michaels]

Best part when Dave exemplifies a bad soldering and ending up pretty well! ^_^

[@erikthegodeatingpenguin2335]

He's so good, he couldn't do a bad job, even if he tried.

[@itchiegames]

MikeVonDoom Lol, and he kept acting like he did a bad job because of the camera but it looked better than a lot of people who put up videos of soldering. I'd love to have that as a "bad" solder.

[@pnwRC.]

THANKS for the video! I've been doing it wrong the whole time! I was placing a small amount of solder directly onto the tip, & then trying to feed the solder into the joint. I'm headed out to the workshop to try this out!

[@pbernstein80]

I just did my first soldering ever, and I'm pretty proud of my joints. I expected it to be a lot harder! Thank you so much, this video series helped me a lot.

[@tschak909]

Fantastic tutorial. EEVblog Smile and know you are genuinely making the world a better place through disseminating your knowledge and experience. :)

[@clairsmyers3571]

I have been soldering for years Dave but I have learned that I am doing a lot of things right and a couple that I am doing wrong! A great video and I'm recommending it to some friends of mine! Thanks for a great video Dave! I very seldom use a chisel tip but I'm going to be doing so from now on!

[@RoughriderUT]

Another great video. I have done aerospace soldering before. They way we did our soldering for military avionics was to use solid solder and pre-flux all our solder joints using liquid flux, usually a rosin based flux cut with alcohol. This does require more cleaning afterwards but give a much better quality solder joint. For basic work tho, these techniques your show are great.

[@Chucklesrailarchive]

I used to love building the old Heathkit kits from the states built several electronic clocks all are still running 40+ years on and they keep perfect time fantastic stuff. Just noticed someone in the U.S is starting the brand again. (2021)

[@knyshov]

I wish I'd seen this much sooner. This is such a great quality video! Thanks for showing what happens when you do it wrong to clarify why the other way is correct.

[@EEVblog]

@philbx1 Yes, it's common to bend IC legs to hold them in place, just like other components. When doing boards like this I like to solder all the IC's before any higher components, so there is no need to bend the legs.

[@God-ib7xc]

Watching this at home during quarantine. Thanks for uploading such a helpful resource

[@fieldlab4]

I always keep a bit of fresh solder on the tip which helps tremendously with heat transfer and speed. When doing a lot of joints that condition just tends to maintain itself between joints. Oh yeah, you eventually suggested that. "Thermal relieves" - Oh wow, all these years I never really got the purpose of that! Cool. My question is- are newer irons with the "tip thermostat" worth it, and which ones? Ah- check the next eevblog videos.

[@Fhantom99]

I'm learning how to solder and I can't thank you enough for your demonstrations and detailed instruction.

Man, finally I was able to start doing some good soldering (well, not that good yet, but way better than my previous attempts). The solder "flat" tip, the "opposite heating" and the soldering thickness made a HUGE difference on my job! Thank you very much!

[@VashGames]

Thanks for the tutorial. I've not soldered in years and have a need do do it now. Your channel came to mind immediately.

[@whiskeyify]

I learned to solder the Bell System way (phone co.). They had us applying the solder to to iron. Dave is doing it the right way.

[@AHRadioVK5]

Ive been soldering really badly all this time and youve taught me a lot dave, i would put way too much solder on, apply the solder on the same side as the iron and stuff, i cant help though that the only solder we have in electronics is 1.2mm which is a bit crap, ill have to take my own next year

[@ShadowFXD]

This video finally got me understanding soldering and beginning soldering. My first attempt at soldering was after watching this video a few times and it came out perfect. Thank you for this video!

[@hoggif]

Great demo for any biginner still! I started with about 1.5 or 2mm solder and my early ones looked much worse than the ones demostrated. Thin solder was difficult to find and I learned to work with 0.7mm even with smd. With current solders you really need to feed them, not just the quick touch I got used to. I still like a bit wider solder just because I'm used to giving a quick touch instead of feeding it. (Yes, I do use thinner ones too and there are really cases where they are really needed!)

[@stefanopassiglia]

For many years I've always only used conical tips, even for soldering those 1W resistors or bigger things. I managed to get it working as you did, tinning the tip to increase the thermal conductance and then solder as usual. Chisel tips are really better but sometimes you need to work with what you've got at hand.

[@shanek7672]

Great tutorial. I'm new to soldering and realize now that the conical tip my iron came preinstalled with is the reason I'm having difficulty soldering PCB pads. I'll be ordering some chisel tips.

[@mouthbreather1]

This is the most excited I've ever seen anyone about soldering.

[@robinpriest9221]

absolutely LOVE your tutorials on Soldering, you have definitely helped me increase my skills big time. I have a question for you however, has anyone ever told you that you sound JUST like Norman from "Yes, Man"? your mannerisms are even incredibly similar to his now that I think of it, not that it's a bad thing, I find it even easier to listen to you with your off beat humor and matter-of-factism. I never trained officially in soldering, I just "winged" it, because honestly, HOW HARD COULD IT BE? I produced a LOT of Cold Joints, despite the fact that they were inferior in quality, they did manage to get me by in Soldering DC Jacks and surface mount components for my clients, however, as I began to move into Microsoldering (with an iPad Mini), I knew that the beads I was producing weren't going to cut it anymore, and I wanted to get some professional looking soldering joints, and I'm glad I found your videos

[@robinpriest9221]

+Robin Shemwell Basically just wanted to say thanks, and I plan on frequenting your videos, as it appears that you can teach me MANY skills that I'm interested in learning as I move forward with Board-level repair jobs and SMD component work

[@BillAngelos]

This video was amazing. I will be referring anyone I know that wants to learn soldering to this video as you were able to explain how it should be done far better than anyone else that has tried to teach me this before.

[@ralphwatten2426]

I was going to leave a crass comment about Australians taking over the world but this is really a good video about soldering. I've always been a crappy solderer but because of KZbin I'm getting better. Thanks for the video.

[@HawkFest1]

Great videos, thanks! One recommendation : when you output the video format, please "normalize" the sound amplitude (volume level). Sometimes I have to raise the volume, while a couple of seconds later I have to lower it (I'm watching these from my apartment so I have to be aware of my neighbors)... A bit annoying. But thanks for the great tips and the great energy you deploy in doing so!

[@EEVblog]

@superdau Longer than needed for the camera. But remember, just because the iron is set to 350degC or whatever does not mean that's what the component itself (and the internal die) will be. The device temp will be substantially lower. So yes, the device will survive this easily.

[@geoffreylee6871]

I have watched many videos on soldering but these are the best by far...well done Dave

[@bikutoso]

I did a ok soldering job on the small project i have. it doesn't seem to be any cold joints on it, but there are parts where i used to much solder, because the solder just flowed down the trays. And in the beginning i had a bit of trouble, because i don't exactly know what to do. But i learned from this video, and i know how i will do this in the future.

[@xiobus]

Thanks for these videos I'm mainly a programmer but all the new technologies have been desiring to move down into a wire understanding of things in greater detail. Thank you.

[@NIOC630]

I have to admit for time issues and the fact that i know my fair bit about soldering + do it since im 6years old i dindt watch the entire videos completely, but i think he skipped one very important thing, that many dont do right; Holding the iron the right way. In the end you have to doo it the way you feel comfortable with, but soldering irons are shaped like a pen so you can hold them like one, many grip it with the tip of their fingers like it could bite them any second or even hold it like a hammer. PLEASE dont doo that, grip it like a pen and you will improve by miles, also you will actually look like somebody who knows what hes doing ;)

[@hurrdurr25]

I'm starting in electronics now, but I've been soldering brass musical instruments for a long time. That kind of soldering, isn't hard either, but it's not easy. Mess up the lacquer on someone $10,000 saxophone, you're in big trouble. And you have to worry about burning up the pads, doing a messy job on silver plate, weakening the springs, and try soldering a sousaphone or bass sax, the things are huge. Good soldering can be an art.

[@ady4tube]

This is definitely the best quality information I've found on internet in months! Subscribe!!!

[@TheGam208]

Thanks for this really helpful tutorial. I'm a beginner and I couldn't get enough heat in the joint to melt the solder effectively. Turns out the tip of my iron was too sharp so I filed it down to a flatter tip, now it works great!!!

[@power-max]

I have always applied solder to the iron with a flux blob on the components and it has worked well almost always. I find it the easiest way for very small boards with one transistor.

[@BluesTracker]

Great Video! I've been soldering for years and still learned a few things from your videos.

[@Lliinx]

Sod you negative people. My soldering is bloody awefull. This guys videos are great and I have learnt a HELL of a lot. My soldering will improve because of his in-depth videos. Thanks Dave (o...sport) lol from the uk. Keep em coming,

[@MsDbarone]

Thanks for all the info, I was able to replace a 10 year old IC in my Sony WEGA TV. A combination of Chip Quick, paste flux and a 30 W iron, I got the job done. I even impressed my 20 year old EE son.....priceless.

[@massimoluciano8577]

Thanks a lot Dave, this is another great tutorial, great tips for beginners and no expert people want to build their electronic projects. Well done

[@N0mad81]

One more beginner want to say thanks Dave. I learning a lot form your videos.

[@andyhello23]

Thanks alot for this video. This is the first decent video i have seen on soldering for those like us whom are new to it. This is the video any new beginner should watch. Its good and you can tell the guy knows his stuff, and he is a good teacher, as he explains things to people, knowing those watching are of all levels. But like others have said, i agree this video is the best i have seen on how to solder for beginners and explains soldering totally for those to understand where they were going wrong. Thanks alot to the blog, i finally seen a video on soldering that actually teaches properly how to solder, and why i was and others would be going wrong.

[@parklander6459]

Great detail. Trying to gain the confidence to get started with soldering. This one did it for me. Many thanks!

[@demitri241]

This might have been mentioned already, but the fine conical tip if for soldering in very tight places. the very tip isn't supposed to heat anything, in fact, it's mostly just to take up space allowing the side to heat up well. The way you used it later, when you got the good solder joint, was the proper way to use a fine conical tip. I'm sure you knew that though. Although it's not often someone would need a fine tip, it's a great one to have, because it fits almost anywhere.

[@HawkFest1]

Yes he mentioned it later, and demonstrated it also, exactly as you wrote. He wanted to emphasize the fact that if you need one for general use (I think he said about 90+% of the time with electronic circuitry), then you'd better take the flat one, as the conical one with a needle-like tip would be useless (or a real PITA) most of the time.

[@demitri241]

HawkFest RoG It's been a while since I posted that, and I don't plan to watch the video again, but as I recall he demonstrated the proper way to use it saying that it was almost never necessary. What I was trying to point out was; if you happen to work on rather small circuits, which is more and more common as electronics continue to shrink, then the fine conical tip is practically a necessity for your collection. As is knowing how to use it. The way he demonstrated at first is a common mistake in use, that I guess a lot of people assume is the purpose. The proper use demonstrated later was sort of brief. I have found that almost every project I have done since I got back into it has been circuits so small that the fine cone was necessary. It's basically the workhorse of my bench right now. The station is put to sleep with the fine cone installed almost every time.

[@philbx1]

Hey, nice stuff again Dave. Thanks much! The first chip you did gave me a good idea.. Bend the second pins in on each corner of the chip to hold it down tight then solder the 4 outer corner pins. Straighten the bent pins and solder the rest. This might be useful if you need to solder a chip after already having higher components on the board. Also thinking I need to get a good station. I still have the same mains (albiet with temp adjust) soldering iron that I bought in the early 80's.

[@sovietrepublic38]

Nice video! I've seen other soldering tutorial and they said that you may first applied little solder between your soldering iron tip and the component (but not before they are in contact) to enhance the thermal conductivity (increase the contact area with molten solder) and then apply most of the solder to the opposite side. I followed this tip and found out that conical iron tips also work very well.

[@valladin82]

Excellent video. I'm currently in school for electronics and just started soldering. This has definitely helped me to fine tune my technique so i stop making ugly joints. :)

[@barakroot1]

great video David! you are a wonderful guy sharing your knowledge for free and making such a great effort! i always have hard time if i had to do some soldering at work and didn't get anyone who tell me things as you do here. hope i will enjoy soldering after looking at your videos.

[@gilmore103]

What about tinning a tip before putting it away to a stand? I've seen this practice on some soldering tutorial videos. It is supposed to preserve the tip from corrosion, but I don't know...

[@patrickthompson2477]

Man thanks for making this great video. Was using a conical tip and it just wasn't working, was wondering what I was doing wrong. Now I see the benefit of the flat tip. Thanks!

[@Nadrealis]

Dave do you think it is good practice when soldering IC's to skip a leg in between solder joints so that you don't overheat areas of the IC. Ex. Say you're soldering a 555 timer chip, you'd solder pins 1 and 3 first, then move back to 2 and 4. Repeat on other side.

[@despisel]

Amazing! Easily the best tutorial about soldering around! Thanks for all your invaluable tips.

[@mikeselectricstuff]

You do NOT want top clean the tip before putting it back in the stand, as the solder protects it from oxidising - always clean on the way out, not in.

[@pinarellocampagnolo3875]

Subscribed. I don't know about these electronic soldering to begin with. But these tutorial gave me an idea to do some soldering on my hobby lately.... Thanks.

[@Armchaircmdr]

One of the most important steps before you even touch your iron to the joint is cleaning. If you have a dirty surface, no amount of flux is going to clean the joint sufficiently to prevent de-wetting. An ink eraser and alcohol help prep the lead and the landing. You should spend more time prepping the surface than you do with the iron on the joint. Also while there is flux in the solder, adding a bit of flux helps with heat transfer. I have found that my solder joints look better when I use flux

[@PimpMyFahrrad]

I bought a chisel shaped tip and 100g of 0.5mm solder and it improved my soldering big time! I get really nice joints. Although I don't understand the importance of having multi core flux. I just bought single core, came out much cheaper. I figured there is no shortage of flux, since I use conformal coating that acts as flux. Besides, I solder only home-made PCBs with bigger joints. Anyway, thanks for a great video.

[@DavidLeeKersey]

@Nadrealis I've always used a socket and soldered that to the board then plugged the IC in. It cost a bit more but I've never had to worry about over heating an IC.

[@engineeringtechnology5997]

What a nice video! It is great that such nice videos are available on the internet.

[@wallnoises]

Dude, I don't know what your name is but damn, I love your voice. It's so jovial and giddy and it cheers me up just listening to it.

[@EEVblog]

@Nadrealis It may keep the die at a lower temp, but in practice the device can handle either method. If I have multiple chips on a board, I'll often alternate between devices, just to let them cool more, just because I can.

[@theloniouscastaneda]

thanks a bunch Dave, helped me out a bunch! i think you did a really great job with these tutorials, and your enthusiasm is a lot of fun to boot. hope all is well in your world!! thanks again!!

[@dokta9532]

Another small tip. Because after soldering using resin cored solder the end of the solder seals over, pinch off 1-2mm before each joint to expose the resin core and allow it to flow out and start doing its job before the solder melts.

[@timun4493]

about the right amount of solder, if you have very high voltages you would sometimes specify round joints to avoid breakdown, not something you would normally do

[@tylermcgill2741]

i soldered for the first time yesterday without watching any videos or prior knowledge... this video makes me feel like such a noob. Big globs galor!

[@cookieofdestruction]

The second example was very helpful. In my theater class we were learning how to solder XLR cables and my teacher was not very clear on the instructions.

[@TomaszWiszkowski]

Dave! Thank you! I've been playing a bit with electronics and soldering from time to time, and pretty much every time my effects were worse than terrible: I just thought that if anyone sees this, I'll be banned from using soldering iron ever again. Now I've been: - using a conical tip (and the more I failed, the thinner tip i've been looking for) - following a (bad) advice that I should put the solder on the tip first. - I tried both the gun soldering iron and the regular, non-temperature-controlled soldering iron. - finally, of course, a pretty thick solder. Because it's "easier"... So I finally understood that there's no possible way I could have ever made a decent joint. Quick question: Could you (in case you never have) make an episode about hot air soldering irons -- are these worth it? if so, how to use them properly? Edit: never mind, just went through the third part. I see you also use these, though with the soldering paste. Thanks again!

[@dalriada842]

In addition to exscape's comment, a small amount of solder on the tip will aid heat-flow between the solder tip and joint. You only use a small amount though. The bulk of the solder is applied from the other side of the joint as per the video. This means there is still enough flux to clean the surfaces. At least that's how I was taught to solder 25 years ago...

[@jeanious2009]

I wish I would of seen this video when I first started, I saw a bunch and all were confusing and boring. Yours are very explained and very dead on accurate. I have a soldapull pump and use that instead of wick, but which one would you recommend? I sometimes have a hard time sucking up all the solder with the pump.

[@jhjester]

Thank you so much for this. I soldered my first circuit board for my Raspberry Pi and this video made me understand how to do it right.

[@jmannUSMC]

I remember learning to solder when racing R/C cars as a kid. You can only lose so many races because of cold joints before you start learning the right way to do things :)

[@spelunkerd]

I didn't think you would keep me watching for the whole 34 minutes, but the time went by really fast. When you get a chance can you show how to use liquid flux?

[@abubakargame19]

This 9 year old video helped me a lot, its 2020 and still useful :)

[@George-tk2hj]

Such good explanations and examples. Teaches you the principles of good soldering, not just the techniques :)

[@lightningplasma]

thanks mate that was by far the most complete tutorial I have watched.

[@FioletPL]

Hi, I've always thought that the PCB hole diameter should tightly match the pin diameter and that it's enough to solder the pin on 1 side only. Here I can see that the holes are much wider than the pins and that the idea is to let the solder flow to the other side as well. So what's the general golden rule? Let's assume that we're talking about a project with a simple 2-sided PCB, with 1 side devoted almost entirely to the ground plane.

[@NameHere02]

The thing I don't like about solder wick is with finer traces on the PCB, it can get quite hot, and sometimes cause the pad or trace to lift off the board. I prefer the desoldering pump. Also, if you do get a cold joint or disturbed joint, any kind of joint that doesn't have too much solder, I just heat it and wait until it flows, rather than removing it. One final thought, is when using DIP parts, sockets are your friend. They don't care about heat, and they make replacing parts much easier.

[@octapc]

17:30 you talk about using solder off of the iron tip, what I use to do is "tin" the tip then delicately swet sponge it so that a thin layer on the tip assist a difficult solder joint. Another point, don't file or sandpaper clean a tip as it will damage the special metal plating.

[@diablolrm90]

I noticed that you didn't mention about tinning new soldering irons. Is there no need to tin variable temperature irons?

[@1supaflyninja]

thank you Murray! This may be a dumb question, but I know you use flux, but when and where do you apply the flux before soldering? Does it come on the solder itself? Rookie, I know..thanks for your time

[@jan.tichavsky]

@Nadrealis Not really necessary. When you have good iron and solder it takes only second or two to do one pin, so it doesn't heat up much. The board helps to cool it as well as the IC body heat capacity. With modern silicon devices it's generally no problem when you heat them longer.

[@rambone81]

I thank you for your tutorial series on soldering. I've picked up some really useful information and I really appreciate them. Certainly worth the time to watch your videos, they are long but so informative! I just ordered myself a new soldering iron / hot air station the other day and I'm really excited to get it and get back to making my toys as I like them. Thanks again for your videos and I encourage you to continue as you have a great mannerism and pack them with information! Subscribed!

[@batesy1970]

I am new to soldering..question: what are the steps to remove a bad resistor so that I can put in a new one? Heat and pull it out? Then do i need to do anything before i put the new one in? Thanks for these videos - very helpful and thorough

[@demitri241]

Wick the solder, then while it's still heated, gently pull the resistor out. If you do that well enough, you'll be left with a nice, tinned connection to put a new resistor into.

[@lllllllRobot]

What is your opinion on snipping before soldering? One guy says, it's best to do it before to ensure you don't stress anything.

[@gbowne1]

That 1489 its a RS232 interface chip. "Quad Line Receiver". I learned soldering by desoldering and resoldering old scrap junk boards from various electronics. The more you do it the better you will get.

[@tomjones4145]

This bloke is a genius and very good at explaining how things work / thank you great video

[@ThomasWeeks]

Hey Dave.. why didn't you show the experienced tips of how to bend thru hole leads and two diagonal DIP leads to properly retain the component tightly against the board while soldering?

[@ExhumedFromBed]

It's good to know that my skills can tradition well from my experience with wireing to circuit boards. Thanks for this video.