How to Solder Bullet Connectors By Innov8tive Designs

[@CJWarlock]

One of the best proper soldering tutorials I've seen (and I've seen many, including the famous "PACE rework and repair lessons"). All necessary details mentioned with a good, understandable narration and with proper examples. Congratulations to the author.

[@aarons7836]

Best tutorial on this i have yet seen!

[@tyking1533]

Finally, a proper tutorial on soldering bullets. Other video show so many mistakes. Mostly no pre-tinning. Cold solders guaranteed. This is the proper way.

[@CentralVAracer]

Nice how to video. I am fixing to solder some bullet connectors on my esc/motor connection and was curious the best way to do it. Yours seems to work perfect. Thanks for making a great video.

[@abenwinUT]

Excellent video. Has all the details needed and narration was right on. Quality of video was lots better than average. Can't wait to view the other videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@robertferguson9159]

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[@jasonrathgeber4881]

Thanks Lucian. I’ve been a follower since the ATTF days! Just a refresher course for me.. hope all is well. Jay.

[@Fugitive0Z]

Thank you for a very good series of videos. Much of it is stuff I already know, but sometimes there is that little extra tip in there I did not know about or had forgotten which comes in very handy! - Keep up the good work. -B!

[@matthewbruton9127]

Love this video, gives me exactly the information i need, and i love the handy little jig you made up, this has to be the best soldering video i have viewed, keep up the good work

[@Encysted]

Excellent, concise, and complete instructions.

[@MrStr8leg]

This vid makes me feel a lot more confident about doing this. THANKS!

[@BrettLyon]

I found this video very helpful and just what I needed to push myself over the ledge and solder myself, thanks!

[@facebiter]

great video. love the rubber band grips for the jig !

[@mscmn5150]

Very good info! I appreciate the time you spent.

[@georgebx]

Thank you for an informative and well produced video!!!

[@ZipSnipe]

Excellent video !!! I learned something, love that jig, simple and effective

[@VladimirTsarevDr]

Excellent, so professional, honest regards!

[@ruimessias8759]

Perfect show ever watched...thanks.

[@drdetroit3001]

Eeh the cleaning off of rosin on a male connector makes sense. But a female connector? Even if you have some rosin on the outside of the female connector, it doesn't make contact with anything except for the heat shrink. Though i run buggies and not planes, so maybe there is some extra paranoia about something going wrong in the air :)

[@CharltonLatchford]

The only thing that would have made the video absolutely perfect would have been to show how you do the male connectors and mate them up. As far as English versus American is concerned, I as a Brit am ok with regional differences in pronunciation. I only get passed off with Americans who screw up the grammar, which is an education issue. Finally, I only wish more people would make videos that are as didactically perfect as this one, at the right pace, giving good information and genuinely useful tips with the why's behind them. Incredibly good job.

[@Makama975]

Great Video! Not only this one, the whole "how to" series. Not much surprises here if you're used to soldering (mentioning to get of the rosin with alcohol was something I never did, though), but there are many people new to the hobby these days, with the miniquads/drone hype going on. Better they learn to build the proper way and not from some youtuber who is great pilot but sloppy builder. It's very demotivating if you're on a budget and your first build crashes/burns 'cause of easily avoidable build mistakes. (antenna placement *cough*, cold soldering joint, loosening screws, ...) best regards, Tauge

[@Innov8tive8]

You always pre-tin the tip of your iron with a little bit of solder before you actually make a solder connection. This is done to provide a liquid surface on the tip of the soldering iron so you get more contact area between the soldering iron tip and the piece you are soldering. If you try to solder with a dry iron, you only get a tiny point of contact between the two pieces and you do not get good heat flow into the part you are trying to solder.

[@infinityrcclub9526]

very nice video. learned new stuff.

[@pauli311]

Great video. Thank you!

[@bloisyjenkins]

Excellent video. Thank you!

[@steveh6632]

Excellent videos! Thanks very much!

[@kc2ulm]

Thanks for that, very informative! I'm new to soldering-- got a question-- before you heated the connector, it looked like you put a dab of solder on the iron before touching it to the connector to heat. Why is this done? thanks!

[@lucienmiller7704]

You can use an 80 watt soldering on larger bullet connectors such as those in the 6mm to 8mm size range. You just need to be careful that you do not get things too hot. You can boil some of the tin out of the solder and make a weak joint if you heat it way too long.

[@tsuyoshihorigome]

Nice Video, Now I understand how to do it.

[@Fugitive0Z]

I use 5 or 6mm heat shrink on 3.5 - 4.0mm on the female bullet connector and have it overlap the end by about 3mm and dont shrink it all the way to tip so when the male connector is inserted it creates an overlapping sheath so there is no chance of any exposed metal therefore eliminating any chance of a short between the three leads. -B!

[@nexrace]

very nice video, thanks

[@bigboy2325]

Thank you this really helpful.

[@0130799]

Very nice video! thank you sir!

[@felixprados9700]

Very good. Thank you.

[@anthonythompson4718]

Excellent thank u for this.

[@harbor.boundary.flight]

Really useful thanks

[@xXFIREWIREXx]

great tutorial

[@budburr66]

Nice soldering job. Try a little liquid rosin flux and enjoy soldering magic!

[@anthonyromano8565]

I have never seen solder on bullet connectors, only the crimp kind. where do you get them.

[@CobraMotors]

We actually have them on our website: innov8tivedesigns.com/parts/connectors/2-mm-bullet-connectors innov8tivedesigns.com/parts/connectors/3-5-mm-bullet-connectors innov8tivedesigns.com/parts/connectors/4-mm-bullet-connectors innov8tivedesigns.com/parts/connectors/6-mm-bullet-connectors innov8tivedesigns.com/parts/connectors/8-mm-bullet-connectors

[@smartass23t]

Just to clarify there are many words in the American language that have silent letters within words. Doesn't mean its wrong either way its pronounced. Do you guys sound out the "k" in knife? How about the "s" in island? The "p" is psalm? Nice vid.

[@xXTECHxKNIGHTXx]

awesome video really appreciate it! =]

[@stevewitt1908]

Thankyou for this video :)

[@i0.0t]

In my experience you can use a 25w soldering iron easily. It is nice to have the power right there, but the lest power you use the more precise you can be.

[@AlfredoArbe]

thxs!!

[@rogerpyzik5429]

thanks

[@Fugitive0Z]

As for Americans pronouncing Solder as Sodder, it's not just accent, it's completely leaving out the 'L'! I too have mentioned it before and seen it mentioned on forums many times. It kinda bugs me too, but what can you do, they all do it and ya just gotta get used to it and live with it I guess! - They also do the same thing to Aluminum. -B!

[@jordanjohnson2776]

Thanks I thought i did it wrong

[@BlueWaterBoat]

Looks like ive been doing it all wrong for a very long time. Plus my soldering Iron is not nearly as powerful as yours. Looks like I need to invest in a better iron.

[@Tanneri18]

do NOT blow on it