Best soldering instruction channel on the Internet!

I just began my soldering journey and this is precisely the best video on soldering methods that I have seen. Clear and calming voice. Very encouraging. Thank you!!

Great video. Very clear explanations with good visuals and audio. Thank you!

This is only the second video of yours that I’ve watched and I’m a huge fan now. Thank you for sharing your talents with us!

Thanks a lot! Between yourself and Adam Savage you solved all of my pressing soldering issues. Please keep it up.

Right around 10:16, you can see the solder on the surface wick into the strands. That's a sign of a quality splice! Beautiful.

Great demonstrations! Thank you very much for this video!

Well I thought I knew how to solder. I only knew one of those methods you showed. Thanks for teaching an old dog new tricks.👍

Again, great video. I've been using these methods (especially the solder splice mesh method), for years but didn't know the names until now. When I use the mesh method, I often give the wires a slight twist and have them lock together tighter. Probably made a bit more work for myself but I've had very good results from those.

Thanks for this, excellent close-ups!

Absolutely brilliant!! That hook method looks beautiful! I had never seen it before. I've only soldered twice in my life and both times I just used the mesh method but I also twisted them around after meshing them together. Didn't even know the name of it, I had just bought a cheap soldering iron kit as a teen and went to town on a friend's old E30 wire harness that needed repairs in plenty of areas that had been butchered by the previous owner, and my friend was very impressed with the quality of the joints (as was I). It was trial and error and I quickly learned that I needed to go in hot and fast as opposed to longer times with lower temps. After watching your videos now I wanna give it another go and solder everything to get even better results! To anyone in America or the Caribbean who's trying to find an alternative to the amazing flux he uses, I found a really high quality alternative that's sold here. It's called Kester 186 and it's a liquid, no clean, RMA type flux. They sell it by the gallon but resellers also fill up tiny bottles with really convenient, ultra thin needle-like spouts to dispense it. (not actually sharp tipped, just a really thin, metal cylinder). U can find em on e-bay. I haven't checked Amazon but you can probably find it there too. By the way Mr. SolderFix, you should look into adding affiliate links to all the products you use in your video description. That way, people can just click on it and purchase it conveniently without having to search for it, while at the same time at no added cost to them, they'll be helping you out by you getting a small commission for every sale. I suggest also adding options that are readily available in America alongside the European ones. The information you're providing to us is invaluable!! Thank you so much! :)

Very inspiring video's.Thank you for posting them!

The best soldering videos on You Tube!

Brilliant home made sleeves, inspired. Here's fella, rapidly becoming the best learning resource on UKposts, hope you channel grows and you get decent recognition for your work 👍

Nicely presented. I prefer the splice where you lap together, bind with copper wire around the lap, then solder and heatshrink. Looks decent, gives good area for electrical conduction and is mechanically strong and compact. Nice job thanks for video👍

New hobby. glad I saw this video. very clear and easy to follow. thank you.....👍👍❤

You are a genius. Very useful tip. Thanks for tip

Very instructional. Enlightened now.

Thank u! Very inspiring!

Good video. I might suggest a couple refinements. It helps to clean wires you've touched before soldering them, as the skin oils are contaminants. 99% IPA works fine. Bravo for showing the value of external flux, many folks starting out would be well served to embrace the big improvement external flux provides, as simply using cored wire is often inferior or just harder to use.

Nice tutorial. Thanks!

GREAT video! well done and thank you

Nice video. I still prefer lined marine grade heat shrink over silicone method. It gives connection a rigid thermo suitable for underwater applications.

Thx for the tips ! I'm gonna use these methods next time

Such neat work. Awesome

I would add the 'double L' method. It is a (better) option of your 'hook' method (as it provides more contact area to the joint). You bend each lead in an ''L' and you overlap them slightly. You then twist the 'leg' of the 'L' around the other wire. Do that for the 2nd wire, and then do a slight pull and solder. This provides a better electrical and mechanical connection. The 'J' really relies on the small connection in the elbow of the 'J' for the electrical connection.

Brilliant, yours are all really neat, not like mine at all, 😂. I'm practising though. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I’m currently doing project with 24 g wire and I have early stage Parkinson’s so soldering is a time-consuming adventure fore me. When I look on Amazon for heat shrink tubing, they are always variety kits. Is there such a thing as buying one size and what size would you recommend for 24 g wire? I like the idea of making my own solder and seal sleeves, they’re probably better then the pre made ones. So when I ask for a recommended size it’s for transparent sleeves to become homemade solder sleeves. Thank you very much.

The coil spring wire joints are Quip connectors once manufactured by Sprague also know as Kwikettes. These were used in radio manufacturing since at least the mid 1920s but probably go further back. They were mainly used on single core wire and components leads and I have never seen them used on stranded cables but that isn’t to say it would be a problem. Not new just forgotten.

Interesting the solder sleeves. Now need a video on how to use just a flame (cigarette lighter for one example) to solder two wires together. Great for a field solder where no power to use a electric iron.

Great job

Hi great video. Do you have some advice on how to solder a signal cable with broken ground? The signal wire is perfect. The ground however is completely severed!

Absolutely fantastic tutorial. This gentleman is an excellent teacher and deserves many more views and subscribers. Top notch material in this channel explained clearly and in a manner apt for even newcomers to understand the easy to follow instructions. One quick question, for the home-made option, what is the material used for the sleeve portion?

cool tip on the home made ones

Great video! Lots of good tips.........You sound like Paul Weller.

yay home made ones look fun

Great apprauch,. Thanks v much. Good game.

Your homemade shrinks are by far better than commercial ones , I discourage people not to use them .... I have done my personal tests on them and they have a huge failure rate , just like a lot of commercial oven soldered PCB's on the market...

Excellent video.

This channel is incredibly underrated. Wish I had found it earlier when searching for soldering lessons on UKposts!!! How can I donate you some money for this quality content? I’ll be recommending your channel to my students 😀

Great video, helped me a lot, highly recommended. Liked and subbed, cheers!

So helpfull! thanks.

When connecting wires I only use the Lineman’s Splice. It’s the strongest and safest connection. Solder and shrink wrap.

Informative as usual 👍👍👍

Thank you for the upload Mr. Solder Fix! Have you ever used MG Chemicals 413B-1L Heavy Duty Flux remover? Should arrive shortly, gonna use it to clean some power supply units for the ps1 as well as the motherboards. Have a good evening!

Thank You very much!!!

Thanks!

Thanks bud.👍

hi great video have you got a list of solder gear you use brands solder flux cleaner and solder irons also cheers lee

thank you

Great!

Thankk you

What material did you use for the homemade sleeve?

Would have been nice to see how you start the wire wrap. I suspect it's very fiddly!

Which method to use to join a thin one strand wire to a thicker multi strand one?

what is the home made sleeve? plastic tubing or plastic straw?

How would you join thick wire like zero guage/awg?

I belive in twisting the wire together

NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

What about much smaller wires? Thin thin ones. I'm having a hard time soldering them. Thin stranded wire to thin stranded wire.

When wires are exposed to vibrations, they usually break just short before or short after the soldering point.

Nice video. Only thing I would comment on is that when you shrink the tubing, you only (show) heating one side of the tubing. You really need to rotate around the tubing, so that all sides shrink. Also, I see people using a BIC lighter, and it kills me! Buy a heat gun!!!

Very interesting. However, in the universe I live in CA doesn't harden and solder doesn't flow.

Great tutorial…. Would like to hear it pronounced “Saw-Der” though….”L” is silent

What I do: Twist wires together, bent it over, twist solder around it, heat it up, bam! Get very nice and low resistance results with this method. \ --------------- \ ------------------ --------------| |-------------- --------------- ------------------