This is like watching Bob Ross teaching Soldering, great videos man. :)

This 5 year old video is better than most videos about tip maintenance. It's on point.

always cover my soldering tips in solder before puting away saved all my tips for more than 20 years now. still as good as new. quality education and tools made in germany.

I've been soldering for a few years now, and I just found this video today. I wish I found it when I started, you really explain things well and in depth. Love your videos

THanks a million, I used this method to build a tiny wristwatch kit that was all SMD. It was much easier then I anticipated, in fact I surprised myself when I put the batteries in her and she came to life! I had thought that I put way to much heat through the processor for it to have survived as the pins were extremely close together and I could not tell for sure if I had all the little shorts cleared, I took over 2 hours getting that first chip in, but I was determined to finish the kit even if it didn't work in the end. I am so proud of my work, I am wearing the little toy-like watch as my daily wear now, just to show off that I actually succeeded! Love the videos, I have joined Patreon a couple of weeks back, sadly today when I came for another dose of knowledge Patreon said it was down for maintenance or some such excuse.

Thank you !!! For me, electronics is just an enjoyable hobby. Yet learning from a pro is extremely educational and enjoyable !

Mr. Carlson, i couldn't agree more. I have preached to colleagues for years about protecting their tips with solder while iron in standby, but they look at me like i have OCD. My tips are beautiful after years of service while their tips look like hobbyists' tips. I will be sending them link to this video. Cheers

Another outstanding tutorial. I wish my teachers in the '70's were as good as you. Thank you so much for another brilliant post.

This seems like a video that should be shown in any electronics class. Very thorough.

The most complete tutorial I have viewed on soldering. Great job well explained.

I really enjoy jessa from ipad rehab. After watching this video I have a new knowledgeable professor available. Thank you.

The calm voice of experience. Well done!

*_"So you've purchased yourself a brand new soldering iron, what's the very first thing you should do before turning the soldering iron on?"_* Well, if it looks like that, *return it.* 😂 Jokes aside, Paul, you are an absolute *master* of your art. Thank you so much - watching your videos always reminds me of the coziness of Christmas (since I first discovered your channel last December.) God bless you Sir! Matthew, England.

Mr. Carlsons lab is actually the mothership!

I like how the size of the room and the tools and the framing, make it look like he is inside a rocket. 🚀

Brilliant. I can't believe how small that last component was!

Thanks for uploading this video. I just purchased an iron and some other gear to start learning (just for personal use) and this is the most informative video ive seen so far! you are very calm and easy to listen to and explain everything very well!. Thank you

Good tips and procedures to follow here. Anything to do with soldering creates a lot of opinions and ways to do it. Thanks Paul and take care, Bill

i really like your calm voice mr carlson. easy to listen to

As always, thank you very much, Paul, for the great video! I can't stress enough how important is to wet an iron tip before turning a station off, so next time you'll turn it on, a tip will be precoated with some solder, drastically extending its lifetime. Cheers! Phil

Hi Mr Carlson's Lab, this video you posted 21.11.2017 exactly on the day of my 40 birthday :-) date as well as a demonstration of how to properly solder me was pleased! Thank you Mr Carlson's, a great video!

Welcome back! We missed you but support you in what you had to do. Oh, and the video is great too.

So nice to hear Solder rather than Soder.

Great and very helpful video, hopefully my soldering skills will improve now I know we're I've been going wrong. Thanks.

One of the most skillful and knowledgeable in the field..and your teaching ability SIR is remarkable and captivating. Thank you so much SIR

Thanks for the good tips. I learned good things and I've been soldering for over 50 years.. One "trick" I learned about doing repairs on lead free solder joints is that by adding a bit of lead solder to the joint can help make de-soldering faster and easier. A few months ago I had to replace the antenna connection in a Yeasu FTM-100D radio and that made it go much quicker to be able to get the heat out of the area. Was an SO-239 soldered to a big pad on the board edge that sucked up heat like crazy.

I'm glad I found this video. I was just soldering stuff at work today and was thinking that I could use some soldering refresher tips. Thanks :)

Great explanation and lots of useful tips. RA Type flux was the best tip ever! As you said: once you get started with SMT you will never go back to THT if not necessary. Many thanks for sharing this and what you do for us on Patreon as well!

Thank you for this, and the upcoming Desoldering video. My 808 is waiting!

Hello again. I watched this video on my pc at work. I will be changing the way I solder from here on. Thank you so much for sharing that info.

Many great tips, and so relaxing to watch. Thanks!

I'm learning a lot from your channel, so great to keep these running in the bg while i'm working. I can't always pay attention to every bit

At school in the Air Force in 77 we spent two days exclusively on soldering.The class for NASA certification was two weeks.

Yes! A new video from Mr. Carlson! Xmas came early this year!

Very nice tutorial Paul, Thanks for sharing your skills.

Really good teaching. Thank you for the valuable information.

This helped me to do soldering thanks Carlson's

Been waiting for ever..I dont even do this stuff but love your videos there very interesting please keep em coming

Thanks for your advice and tips mr. Carlson I really do enjoy all your work clean precise very educational thanks again for being a great teacher. have a great Thanksgiving

Great videos. I always watch them. Thanks.

I always dipped the soldering iron tip and the end of the solder in flux before what we called, 60 years ago, "tinning" or coating the tip with solder. I've only soldered a few connections during the past 40 years so I appreciate the tip about "don't file the tip." They were all just plain copper in the olden days and filing was a necessity.

great tutorial on soldering for beginners!

Thank you Mr Carlson. I really enjoyed this video.

dang son... you have some darn fantastic vid's.. I even went out and bough an old tube radio from the early 50's.. But I think it a to much of an ammeter to attempt a rework of it.. do it sit's in my shop and I listen to it while I am out there for as long as it will work.. it hums rather loudly as I go down the dial but the upper stations come in fine thanks for all of your hard work my friend..

Very thorough and wonderful video. I learned a lot.

Very nice instruction. I've been doing some things wrong the whole time...LOL! Thanks for the video!

Ik this is 4 years late but thank you for this you explained it excellent and showed different types of soldering not just one I want to get into soldering and this helped out a lot and gave me a lot of inspiration. If you see this I have a few questions.

Hi Mr Carlson thanks for the great vid and tips, by the way I like the look of your spacecraft control panels.

Hakko iron with Weller stand... best crossover :P

WOW! What a workstation 😮👍😍

This clip is worth watching more than once.

I very much appreciate your videos. I am a beginner need fundamentals.

Very good tutorial on soldering. I agree with you regarding not necessarily having to wrap the wire around the tube socket connection lug. I read in an article there the writer claimed that one needs to wrap the wire tightly to get a good metal to metal bond because solder is not glue. I thought and wrote him that no solder is not glue... it is weld. I had another discussion years before that when manufacturers were using wire wrapped studs for the wiring that no, even though it seems to make the metals bind, and that the edges of the studs seem to bit into the wire, there is still a little gap between then and will oxidize. I have myself improved the performance of those components after a few years by soldering them all. That idea of wire wrap connecting only lasted a few years. It was a bad idea especially in computers.

Mr.Carlson thks for the tip I did exactly as per tutorial and all is good

you are an incredible professional, thanx

Greetings from a regular viewer. I don't know if you would have the time or interest, but I could use some advice if don't mind. I burnt up the instrument cluster of an old Honda CRV that I had purchased for my Daughter by trying to replace burnt out lamps with LEDs . Even though I tried to be careful and check polarity, I failed to realize to so called replacement lamp sockets had double metal contact wings that scratched into the double sided circuit board, causing instant smoke when I applied power. Believe it or not, I was able to solder small jumper wires passed all the burnt up traces. Everything works now, all lamps and gauges with the exception of the fuel gauge which works but fluctuates erratically at times. I narrowed the area down to some very small SMDs which look like three pin transistors but I can't identify them as there is only "1G" stamped on the back. I also tried Google for a component diagram from Honda with no luck at all. I would just buy a new one, but I want to learn how to repair electronics, and I made it this far with a magnifying glass, multimeter, and a soldering iron. any suggestions ? I could use help identifying and testing these tiny components and where to find data sheets. Thanks

Great tutorial for a newbie like me. 👍

Neat... a Hakko iron fits into an olde Weller stand... good to know! One thing i see is just about every instruction video on You Tube for soldering seems to be hit with "that's wrong", "not how i was trained", "i'm a trained and qualified...." "you're not right on the..." For myself and what must almost be nearly 40years in electronics where i have been soldering together so many components in repair to design prototype, wire ends, wire to wire joins , smd manual prototype and smd replacements all the way through to solder-joining large aluminum cable clamps to copper lands on heavy guage circuitboards, i've never personally had a failure. OK i don't have to work on really specialist stuff as example medical or aircraft where i can see a real reason you need to have passed some kind of ability test but at the end of the day its about technique and putting it into all together each time you make that join. Knowing and understanding what's going on is probably a good thing too. (i've heard people say things like letting the solder dry... which says to me they don't understand what's happening)... Mr Carlson has shown us his well learned techniques he uses to ensure a close to 100% so-perfect-that-it-doesn't-need-to-be-discussed-kind-of-join. I must add though that like almost everything in life it pays to PRACTICE and PRACTICE purely to keep your skills experience up so you don't skip any of your learned techniques in what is almost a Craft next time you bring out the iron...

Solid advise as always! Have a great Thanksgiving !!

Good work dear Mr Carlson ! keep it going... (watching from Singapore)

"you sneeze and this one disappears" HAD me laughing forever! LOOOL

Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪 Great channel! You just got yourself a new subscriber 🤖

I am having trouble soldering the 12 gauge power wire to a quadcopter 4n1 ESC power inputs. I have watched many of your video, including the one on solder. I have ordered some items, I think you have given me some great advice. Thank you.

Great information and tips Paul, thanks.

Nice video mr Carlson big thumbs up mate

Awesome tip

after months of research.. i finally found two good Soldering irons.. one is the TS100 that brought me to the direct heating element.. that is the heating+temp is all in the tip.. i found a different STM32 based station.. and got one that hasen't a build in power supply this was by design.. as i bought the best laptop power supply i could get my hands on... i could use that to also power my second STM32 (ship) based soldering iron.. and a found that certain aliexpress vendors sell extremely good tips.. the reason why i needed a different station from the TS100 was that i needed i smaller chisel tip. as i like to build my own keyboards.. this was an awesome adventure really love soldering.. for those getting in to it.. try buying a few practice kits on aliexpress..start with the hourglass kit ..good luck

Thanks again fo a very interesting video. Sometimes we forget how much we know and back to basic videos are just great for youngsters and newbies. However, we sometimes also forget that we owe others for spending the time to educate us and that we have a duty to pass this information on to the next generation and not pass it on only to those who can afford a monthly patreon fee. Would you consider maybe a weekly 5 minute back to basics video series where the funtionality of a component type was covered e.g. transisters - npn, pnp, diodes, caps, or even simple 5 minute circuits 555 timer, flip flop. Please consider. Thanks J

Always great videos!

very good instruction, thank you ...

Another message from Mr. Carlson's space capsule! ;) Houston: We have a signal.

Man you're like a surgeon...good stuff!

For those big chassis grounds, some pre-heat with a heat gun (equipped with a concentrating nozzle) can make a huge difference. Hit it with the hot air for 30-60 second, and you might find you can use a basic 70w-80w station. Preheat really does help, if you can just knock most of the chill out of the primary sink points.

Thank you so much for your videos.

Great job! It appears that many others in the comments section are experts with strong opinions for the home gamer. Funny how they don't offer a single video that visually highlights their expertise on the subject.... hmmm.

Thank you Mr Carlson.

What a great touch

thank you mr carlson

Good video thanks for the info.

Having learned old school point to point soldering I can tell you what i had been taught. Wrapping the lead around a standoff or terminal is to ensure good mechanical connection so that you are not relying on just the solder to provide strength to the joint. Solder is there only for the electrical connection and continuity. Another thing to keep in mind was that I learned this in the military in the early 70's. Electronic equipment took a lot of beating and vibration hence the mindset of really making sure the components never ever come loose.

GREAT videos. Thanks.

A great tutorial help. Thanks 👍😜😎🤓

Thank you so much! GREAT tutorial!

Thank you so much.

Thanks for taking the time to make youtube videos from The International Space Station

Suscribed! Thanks for your professionalism

Here I thought I knew how to solder, lots of good stuff!

Excellent and amazing. thank you

almost 1000 views in almost one hour...... Congrats Paul !

V nice Sir. Thank you very much vedio is helpful. .appreciated 👍need some more vedio .

Wow that tiny component and how easy you make it look

Great Video Paul. I think the origins of "wrapping" leads around sockets is unknown. I do believe however Heathkit fueled the "Wrap" craze with their instruction manuals for their kits. 73's KB8NIV

learning a lot Mr Carlson and top marks for pronouncing solder properly a lot of other channels annoyed me when they say sodder

Amazing video and skills again. What should be used to wash away the flux after soldering? Thx.

Great video thank you

Thank u Sir good job great technic

Thank you for posting this video. I found it helpful. I am new to your channel, I am searching older uploads of interest to me. I taught myself to solder around age 10. This video made me discover changes in technique. I do have a few questions. The mesh pad you were using to clean the tip what is it made of, where can I purchase one. Thank you in advance for any assistance you provide.

What a setup

I am an smd fan as well. My limit is 805 :) I love your work Mr Carlson.