This Can Save You Hundreds! | How to Repair an XLR - Soldering an XLR

[@Zalgol]

As a temporary clamp to hold small items I frequently use an elastic band wrapped around the handles of a set of pliers. Its quick, and even continues to apply holding pressure if the job moves in the jaws. But I can also easily open the jaws by hand to swap in the next component if I'm doing a number of connectors. I'll also use needle nose pliers to hold the target wire just at the root of the stripped section to help position the wire whilst soldering. This heat sinks the conductor and helps to prevent the heat from melting the insulation on the conductor.

[@jasonlapasinskas5302]

Breathing in the smoke from lead solder probably not the best idea. Get an exhaust fan and a set of helping hands to make your experience a lot safer and easier.

[@dooshmasta]

@13:28 20cm is about 8 inches. I’m sure everyone understood you meant mm :D

[@timmann8266]

I can recommend to hold the connectors either a old broken cable tester like the ct100 or d size panel mount on a wall plate.

[@ak-diver843]

Well done. Like your vids. What about to solder a Mic like Sennheiser E908.....thx

[@andreas-wismann]

@26:25 simply hold the plug in place by inserting it into your cable tester

[@jasonlapasinskas5302]

Not a great idea. The connector can get hot and cause the tester connectors to get hot and desolder the connections in the tester. Ask me how I know😳

[@andreas-wismann]

@@jasonlapasinskas5302 ouch ... I never had that issue, and I use a decommissioned testing unit for that purpose anyway - following your advice I guess that was a good idea :-)

[@glynnetolar4423]

AWG actually stands for American Wire Gauge.

[@ipyanadavid118]

Thanks so much for the help me on this

[@glynnetolar4423]

For your European viewers strip off 20cm. 😂 Yeah, i know we Americans don't do metric and I'm not fan of metric but yes, i did catch the bold error. 1 inch is 2.54cm, not we 20!

[@munirwerlin]

[@glynnetolar4423]

He keeps flicking his soldering iron. Bets are he's getting solder everywhere but over the covered area. I wish I could find the joke video about how to solder where the guy is banging the soldering iron everywhere, 'tig welding'. Because that's what this video is reminding me of. There's some good advice here but some is a bit sloppy, in my my 40+ years soldering experience.

[@mcmattt1]

this video could be shorter