That out of frame linemans splice was an eye opener :)

Exactly the kind of video I was looking for! Took a minute to find. But perfect. Sometimes all you need to learn to do something right is someone who can explain it clearly and in a way that makes sense to you. I finally feel like I might be able to do some good soldering work! Thanks a lot man.

Thanks SO much for all your trouble in making this video... I've tried SO many times to do it myself, and you taught what I never knew beforehand - TO CLEAN YOUR TIP - BEFORE USE! Probably explains why I have just not been able to do a successful soldering job before! AGAIN, thanks for your time & effort!

"Yeah, it'll work. But it looks like a dog's ass, so don't do it." I love his simplistic approach XD

I like how you point out what's needed and what's nice to have!

The first line you said was enough for liking you. Suscribed

The best one I've seen yet. You covered exactly what I needed covered, especially the electronic components. Thank You very much.

amazing video. i am going to fill out my first board today and feel confident after this video

Thanks for this video! Getting ready to learn soldering and this is just the simple straight forward intro I needed!

I like putting some heat shrink on the jaws of the alligator clips (on the helping hands). This helps to prevent them from chewing up the traces on the board. You can see at 15:45 the damage it did to the pads on the top of the board.

This is a great instructional video. Would have helped me when I started this a few months ago, but I use a lot of the tricks displayed here. I will add that at 9:35 --> (yes I highly recommend using a breadboard when soldering headers into components) but the trick I learned to keep the other side stable (and level with the header your soldering) is to stack a few washers on both opposite corners. Works for me. Happy soldering, the process really goes quickly. Keep the tip tinned.

Thanks so much for this video - fantastic! Going to solder my first beginners kit tomorrow as this was a great motivator to get me going.

Great video! Before watching this, I knew enough to be dangerous and have been wanting to teach my middle school students (I am an engineering and robotics teacher) how to solder. Your video cleared up my mistakes and now I can move forward with teaching this valuable skill. Thank you!

Really enjoyed ur pro tips for desoldering. I feel i can get started now from ur video. Great teacher! I'll check out ur other stuff too! Thx for sharing ur passion and knowledge with us. This is amazing stuff!

Always had a love for electronics , and now, thanks to your VERY informative videos I seem to have an addiction. lol. thanks a lot man , keep inspiring ...

Each video you've posted is a learning experience for me. Today's high point was the 'capillary action' drawing up the solder which I didn't know about. Will try it.

Thanks for the explanation, good job!

Nice job. Very helpful. Thanks

Had a lot of soldering practice in tech school. My favorite kits were Heath Kit.

Nice tutorial, mate. Appreciate your calm explanation and matter-of-fact approach. I got way more out of this video than any number of others I've watched. Thanks. :-)

Thx dude, great explanation real down to earth!!!

Your tutorials are the best!

You should be getting way more views. Great instruction, thanks!

Some really useful tips here -- thank you! I'd never thought of using a breadboard to help with soldering! Great video.

RIP Radioshack

Very good video kept me entertained while being informative i can't wait to learn how to soder

Very good one. Please keep giving such good videos. You are a good tutor.

What you were really doing was: iron to pad & pin, solder to pad pin & iron junction, move solder to opposite side, flow, remove solder, remove iron. This helps heat transfer and releases flux. Folks commonly say the heat the pad and pin and touch solder to hot pin, but they don’t actually do that. Great video!

Awesome just the kind of refresher course I needed Thanks

Yet another great informative video!

Thank you very much. Just what I was looking for.

This is a very good beginners' basics tutorial. "If my old eyes can see" - Dave Jones likes to joke that "Even Stevie Wonder could solder 1208 components," but I have trouble focusing on 100 thou perfboard. My cheap third hand tool came with a magnifier and I've tried some eyeglass loupes, but I've found that when it comes to focusing on a circuit board, a pair of dollar store readers is the Cock for Dolly. I frequently use small PTH boards similar to the one you used to demonstrate soldering headers. I rarely bother with headers for offboard or board-to-board wiring; I just splat breakout wires onto the pads at the edges, the way Clive used to do his TV prop wiring. Not very physically robust, but good enough if everything is anchored to a common surface.

I taught myself to solder 20 years ago while working in a guitar shop. I realize I had no clue what I was doing. This was pre-UKposts. Would have benefitted greatly from this.

Dear Sir, an other excellent video, I just watched the video where you purchase the temp soldering iron for your tool bag and thought that one was great, then I watched this video and I have been doing it all wrong, now because of this video I can begin to do the right way, thank you so much for these videos.

Very cool! This helps a lot!

i am already hooked, just by watching this video.

Awesome video, thanks!

Thanks to your video I learned how to solder

The flux is a great idea! Thanks.

Great info, many thanks

Thanks for this video!

What I have found very handy is a block of wood, about a two-inch cube, with various sizes of holes drilled into it. That way, it's really easy to hold things such as 3.5 mm plugs and leds when you're soldering wires to them. And you can get a soldering jig from Duratool for about £4 -- they save a lot of trouble!

Cheers mate, really useful

great vid. Thank you

great video! 👍🏼

Man, great video!

Thanks for posting. Very educational. Would be nice to see how to solder wires to the components on the board -how to solder an actual circuit, in other words.

Thank you great video

Excellent. Thanks

Very intuitive thank you.

Very nice. Many thanks.

8:27. Heatshrink tubing not shrink wrap. Good video

Vote up, nice video clip, thank you for sharing it :)

I just learned!

Really enjoyed your video on soldering! Question: Are there different types of fluxes? Or is soldering flux standard for electronics? Keep up your excellent videos!

awesome account!

I built one of these! I was wondering if I could make something else out of it! any ideas? I have a radio shack iron also. I have a crazy Weller pistol grip 100&140 watt . I haven't used it for electronics. seems to hot. I no longer have a RadioShack . it closed down back 6 months ago. there isn't anywhere to get anything remotely electronic locally. I guess the big Weller will be good for wires. and larger stuff I got it for $2.00 at a yard sell. I made my own helping hands from copper wire and gator clips. 10 gauge solid copper works well. I wish I knew as much as you. or half as much. there is so much I wanna do.... thanks for the videos. and happy Thanksgiving!!,..

Any video explaining differences between stripboard, veraboard, and perfboard? I'm very new to electronics.

Nice video in many ways but do you know any of the elementary parts to a camera?

radio shack is closed( I just got my soldering kit, any suggestions of what can I build as starter?

THANK U!!!!!!

If you do not mind asking how to connect between the resistor to the capacitor and the other component? Must I use a wire connection between one of them? Thanks.

Great video. Is there a good soldering kit on amazon or somewhere for beginners? Would be good to add a link in the description possibly if there is. Thanks!

Great video but where are the power bars on this board? I have the same and can’t get my LED to light up. Is it Bc I don’t have power bars?

thi looks great but I really want to know how you're going to connect all those components. that's the real hard part. Do you use a jumper wire that connects them on the top side? do you run wire between the components in the under side?

wow that was awesome info and I'd like to thank you personally as I have so much to do as I plan to create my own circuit boards which will connect to switches to create sound effects and lights activation on a robot costume i want to build so if I have push button switches on my gloves they will send signal on wires going from the finger tips right to the boards placed in cheat panels connected along the way to other wires which come from under my arm pits areas straight to the main hidden circuit boards in the main box powered by 12v battery in my inner chest panel circuitry section. If I could achieve all these plans of mine it would be Incredible as well as also installing buttons and effects in a self made space ship consul like a star trek kind of effect when being viewed by a camera in fornt of me zooming down to the hand movements from above. I will surely enough be back to ask more questions about what I have just told you I wish to do but I will need to get the materials circuits and l.e.d.s. in switches etc before I start my project. Thanks again fella keep up the good work too bye for now ;)

When you add a component to a board, would you place it flush on the board or would you give it a gap so it was slightly raised on its legs? I am new to this so asking dumb questions. I was wondering if components needed breathing space or if it really needs to be resting on the board.

Thanks for information. I about to start my gaming repair shop

TNK U MAN .

Professional! Thank you.

You stuck a bunch of things on the perfboard, but how do you now connect the components together? From the backside you connect wires to each of the little mountains of solder? What's the technique for that? That's what I came here to learn.

is that proto board from amazon? it looks like what I need!!!

Welllllll....Who say you can't teach an old dog a new trick??? Well done!!! What is the temperature of the soldering iron? Thanks.

If your wires are both connected to something place shrink tube on first!

I agree wit Walter Edwards, this was the best instruction, ever. What do you recommend I do for practice? What I mean is, is there a place to get cheap components to practice on?

What is the perfect temperature?

whats a bread board? And you don't use flux? Thanks for the video.

the job is only 30% done, upon attaching components to board would be nice to show how to connect them into circuit

was this take so good, so expensive or impossible to reproduce, that it couldn't be done again ON CAMERA ?! Ever hear Zappa's intro to CHEEPNIS on "Roxy and Elsewhere"?

Does he start working in frame at some point?

What's a good degree to get the solder flowing quickly?

22:00:my girl when she leaves my house

What about those fumes? Are they dangerous? Ummm.... I don’t know how to tell what is being done out of frame? Question. You used a flux paste on the led, why did you not need to with the others? I know the wire had flux in it, so did you change solder type, or was this because of something about the led’s wire legs?

You twisted those wires so tight that they already had that shine of solder😆

Cheap soldering irons have come a long way, especially everything with hakko tip compatibility.

You waste a little time by not creating a "solder bridge" first before you try to apply solder to the other side of the joint. That's why the solder does not melt until you touch it with the tip of the iron. Besides that, this is a good upload.

camera frame, camera frame!

" And some people even think its fun" hahaha

I built my own solder station and save money in the process.

what is the temperature of the soldering iron

"It looks like a dog's ass" LMAO!!! Thanks for the video.

Will this work with pointy tip solder iron?

I appreciate your efforts man. I tried watching, but the poor framing and focus made it hard to watch.

Do you guys think this is dangerous I personally think it looks like alot of fun. So I just wanted to know if its like safe etc.

21:12 so i was doing it right all along wau

You'll do much better working from one end, switching ends. Much much easier

Thats my greatest fear, burning up a transistor. I keep my iron at 350c.

I tried this with the breadboard supporting the header pins. It melts the hell out of the breadboard plastic.

new to electronics. what is this flux that everyone is talking about? is it some liquid? what is it used for?

Look at them Knuckles Working . LOL If you put a Circle around your framing area it would help ya stay in.