9+ years later, this is still the best hand-soldering I have seen.

I really like this lightweight kindle & the fact that the color is on both back & front - ukposts.infoUgkxCgPI5O2AtmcHq9SJhgsCGbpAzJAJfrJp I just wish that Amazon would put the on/off button on the TOP of the kindle so I didn't keep turning it off while trying to hold on to it. And WTF were they thinking when the changed the size of the charging port? I own 4 kindles and now 3 work off of the same mini charger, the same one as my phone, but this new one is a different size so I have to have its "special" charger with me or a second kindle in case the battery goes flat.

With this music I fell like I'am saving the world by soldering properly

I have been soldering for almost 60 years, and I have never seen anything like this.Much to learn !

Absolutely outstanding. Lots of 10-minute videos consists of the uploader rambling on and on about how to solder. Your video jumps straight to the point and shows several different ways to do it in just 3 minutes. Great job. Liked and subscribed!

Pleased with how incredibly neat this is. What it means to me is that having the right tools would make the journey smoother.

Wow, masterful. I saw this on reccommended by accident after viewing another soldering video, and yours is so clear and full of detail. Thanks! I have a painfully small port break I have to learn soldering for

Damn, This is the Best soldering I have seen in my Life

I wasn't dropping my jaw until I saw the 160-pin QFP being soldered with an iron. Amazing work and technique you have. This gives me higher confidence to try new soldering methods (I can already do TQFP-32 and SOIC-24 all day), and also to be less fearful of higher-pin-count devices in my designs.

am in awe amazement, such a fine specimen of being you are ! steady hands and professional to the core !! Kudos !

That is breathtaking!

Saw this video a couple of years ago and I baught a gullwing tip for my Weller soldering station, after a bit of practice the results are awesome!

Its so satisfying to watch. I could watch this all day

Holy crap, your skills are amazing! I've been soldering for a while now, I thought I was pretty good but I can't even hold a candle to you! Fantastic video, thank you for sharing!

You, sir, are a true master of your trade; that is clear! I am fascinated by the different multi-lead techniques. That bevel tip seems critical for any kind of production work...

This is the Best soldering I have seen in my Life

These joints are so beautiful. I wish I get on that level constantly some day.

Excellent job. Very clean and professionally done to prevent cold solder easily.

Great video. I start a new job Monday as an electronics tech after being out of it for roughly 8 years. Your video gives me some confidence that I can get back to form. On the other hand, watching Bob Ross also makes me think I can paint... so we will see.

Your video is outstanding! I tried soldering SMD parts with a similar tip and according to your explanation and it really works a treat. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Excellent presentation watched many many times over the years and have highly recommended your videos.

I'm the old school electronicien, I found I can learn from you something from the new world, thanks John,.

Congratulations John! And thanks for sharing these techniques!

I have been soldering for a very long time and this is one of the most sensible videos on this topic - usually everyone has everything burns, turns black, solders for minutes )))

This video is inspiring, thank you for uploading it, I'll be researching the IPC class 3 shortly. Thank you for providing excellent examples!

Thank you so much for this amazing video -- it knocked orders of magnitude of time off my SMD hand soldering tasks!

respect sir, respect! I'm from Greece and you help me a lot with your tip. Actually you make it look so easy the soldering with your stable hand. So stable tha you make the viewer to feel that it can do this so easy as you. You are the best and we are waiting for new videos.

Thanks for posting this video and these other tutorials. Looks like nicely skillful and inspiringly precise soldering compared to most of the soldering videos I have seen on youtube.

That is some truly Master class craftsmanship there. Thanks for the upload!

Man, this guy is great. I would have thought it had been done by a machine. Very neat.

Truly amazing. I wish I had even half of this skill, it would have saved my Philips TV mainboard which I ruined, trying to replace a blown microchip, even with plenty of spares I still messed it up badly. Eventually damaged the board with so many poor attempts, and have ordered a replacement board. Frustrating!!! Great video and Best of the Best skills. Cheers!!

you definitely inspire me and i have bought my equipement as you suggested plus i had to get some more smaller tips, because i do rework on cell phone boards where CF3 for example is too big. I was able to drag solder with the smaller tip and i love the results. Thanks for the video!

I never thought soldering would look so cool on the video. This is amazing :D

This is extremely beautiful work! I admire this video like a piece of art at the moment...

Thank you for excellent video. It explains quite a lot, especially this thing about flat surface on the tip. Personally I am using Weller tools and needle-like tip No 7 for this but now I will try your technique, it is so elegant.

WOW! Incredible. Hands down the best Ive seen in YEARS!

amazing work, i found this video to help me solder a capacitor in my rear projection tv. it was very useful. awesome work

Most amazing soldering skills ive ever seen.

A simple and succinct video, with "show don't tell," attitude with badass music. Thank you!

Totally impressed! Thanks for the post and the quicky soldering training vid.

After watching this amazing soldering techniques I learned how to solder this kind of smd IC's similar to this video with a very cheap soldering Iron, after I learned how to do it similar to this video I figured out that nothing is impossible, thanks

Thanks for sharing the video - you make it look easy. :) I've been looking around for good QFP technique, but I'm a little confused on this. I'm assuming the blue tip tube is solder paste and the yellow tube is flux? If so, I'm having a hard time figuring out where all the solder comes from when you do the swipe at 2:05 :) May I ask what solder/flux you use? The stuff I've used for SOICs seems to have too much surface tension for QFP work - or maybe I just need better flux application.

Impressive and professional work! Cheers

Chuck Norris soldering level. Wow!! Mad skills!

Awesome job! I was just wondering, at 1:39, where can one find that sort of injectable liquid solder paste?

The very best in this technique, thank you for this video and others you have provided. (RF - UK.)

man 6 years later and it's still just as impressive.

I can tell your fingers work leave traceless like a robot work stamping PCB, just excellent, your work comes from your heart....

Nice video top. Could you put links to buy this material? Then I wanted to know a temperature of 300 degrees with tin 60/40 ok?

very helpful thanks for this video. can you recommend what types of Watt required to solder a cellphone parts? a minimum watt?

I'm a CIT, and I still admire Mr. Gammell's work.

Excellent work-Beautiful accuracy. I see you recommended the Weller WESD51. It looks like great low-to-middle end unit. I can't seem to figure out what the exact model # is of the hoof-type tips, similar to the ones you use in this video. I know you have said Weller calls them "single flats", but I can't seem to find any that match yous. Can you recommend a good tip for the WESD51 that I can use on a 100-TQFP chip? Would it be their ETDD? How about for the Hakko you recommend? Thanks!

Hello John! Great video! Do you have to/ is it desirable to aplie Flux to the joint even if you are using rosin core solder which has a flux core? If i would start to solder should i clean the surface i want to solder on before i begin with isopropyl alcohol??

This is great! What flux paste do you use in this video?

Hi again John. Thanks for the advice on tip part#s. I have found a mid-line Hakko unit, the 936. It is analog, and uses different tips than the 951. Do you have any experience with it? Thanks.

This is art, man! You're too professional :)

Superb! Thank you for illustrating your class workmanship.

such a piece of an art... beautifuly done 😍

Crafty and beautiful. Thanks for sharing the tips.

Very impressive. What temperature is the iron set to? Also curious about the type of flux and solder paste used in the demo.

With a little practice, it's not too difficult. The key is having the right soldering iron tip and enough flux (personal preference is a bevel tip with an indent "solder cup"). Apply a generous amount of flux to both the component leads and pads, and drag away. If you get a bridge, it usually means you didn't apply enough flux or you have insufficient heat (either temp is set too low or you have something dissipating too much heat like a massive ground plane). Also, not all fluxes are created equal - some are more aggressive (active) than others, and more aggressive flux can be beneficial if you're working with boards or components that are slightly oxidized. I like water soluble flux, because it's fairly aggressive and it cleans up so easily compared to rosin. Water soluble is also great for Rohs (lead-free), and makes nice shiny solder joints after washing.

Amazing work and tutorial!

what a beautiful soldering techniques. may i know what is the iron tip temperature commonly used for the drag soldering, please?

I looked this guy up. He 15 minutes away. He came and visited my shop, showed me a thing or two....we became friends. All I gotta say is thatTechnique and practice is what this takes to make happen. Hakko is top of the line, but even with those 8 dollar radioshack irons, you can do close to, if not just as well as this video. I haven't talked to John in a couple years but if anyone wants to chat about his methods or wants some tips (advice, not equipement), let me know. I am more than happy to help. I have a camera on my microscope, so that helps.

I am really impresssed by your skills

one of the few decent soldering how to videos.

Brilliant soldering demo. After 12 years still actual. Actually not so hard to repeat, however proper solder, proper flux (especially), proper soldering iron tip and proper temperature are very important here. More or less steady hands are also prefered :)

And i thought i was good at soldering, eons behind. Thx for the perfect video presentation mate, and top choice on background music. I really did`nt want the video to end.

Damn, this is such a seamless tutorial that could have taken far more time to master even though I have intermediate experience. And here I thought that this was hard, but these techniques done by this person is so precise that I cannot believe it. Heck, now I'm getting a little jealous.

Your skills are amazing. What flux do you use?

Absolutely beautiful soldering...... This Wallmart soldering iron just isn't doing the job for me....I felt like crying and laughing while watching your video at how easy you make this look. Thankyou for the post.

This video is very well made. Learn something new every day!

I remember when involved with electronic manufacturing that we used guides that Martin Marietta put out many years ago. It was one of those things where a company developed for in-house use, and then decided to sell it (I found them and it at a "NEPCON" West show in California back when they still held those.) Each practice (soldering, crimping, wire prep, whatever) included four photographs. In descending order they were called something like "Ideal, Acceptable, Minimum Acceptable, Unacceptable". They made the goal clear, but left a little room for practicality. The examples in this video are certainly in the "Ideal" category. Especially the soldered lead in the through hole example. It is supposed to look wetted up the lead, and be cut above that point.

I have been soldering frequently since I was 9, (1958) and I feel embarrassed to see how far I have to go. Heck, I thought I was pretty good....I bow to the Master:>)

Great vid, great music..great workmanship!

WOW Your work was incredibly clean and excellent . 👌👏

Great skills, getting a decent station just because of this video. An extra mention for the music, can't go wrong with metal.

Great video but I have one question. When you are cleaning the flux off, you seem to use the same brush for the initial application of alcohol and also for pushing the kimwipe onto the part. Is this necessary - does the brush need to be wet? I would have thought you'd want the brush to be dry on the second part of the cleaning process. Can you please explain this?

simply incredible soldering skills. I am almost suspicious that some kind of time lapse camera shot trickery, or some video editing trick was done to prepare this video. The skills displayed in soldering were out of this world provided they were captured by the camera in real time.

This is one of the most satisfying videos I've ever seen. Those are some beautiful joints. Your experience really shows with this. I'm currently learning microsoldering by fixing things like broken connectors and charge ports on phones and tablets. Just successfully desoldered a broken micro USB off of a tablet and cleaned the pads. Can't wait to try soldering the new one on. I think I'll get one of those bevel tips. They look really useful. Edit Also if you don't mind my asking, when it comes to desoldering SMD components (like charge ports, connectors, and ICs) I've seen some different techniques. I personally used flux and some fine solder wick to remove most of the solder then used an SMD reflow station to lightly heat it up until it gave way with some tweezers. I've also seen other people use flux and heat only. I'm assuming the technique really depends on the number of leads? Or is one better than the other?

This is amazing! I love it.

That was a really clean procedure! But may I please know the paste applied to the leads before soldering at 1:43?

Very professinal work dude. Thanks to share with us. Keep going with this video tutorials. Greetings from Argentina.

Wow! You make it look so easy!

Bloody hell, that is some exceptional handiwork!

Awesome! What soldering wire did you use?

Great and one of best videos ever. Thank you. John, can you show me link to buy or full product name of past that you applying on 1:40 or 1:48 ? Thank You

Great video ! Nice and quick with good results.

Someone knows how much the temperature's iron is? And the brand/kind of the solder??

What a skilful hands!!! simply fantastic!

This is amazing to witness! What is preventing "solder bridges" from forming?

Unbelievable...! Simply the best...!!!

@StinkyCheese9999 In my applications, my irons are at the proper temps... however we deal with large thick ground planes and boards that are designed to dissipate heat (ie high intensity LEDs). While we are in the process of trying some new tacky fluxes, the stuff we have used in the past (low solids) flashes off well before the solder reflows. As far as equipment goes, I am using a new Hakko FM-206 for hand sodlering/desoldering and the Hakko FR-803B rework station for fine pitch removal.

what is the clear stuff ur useing

That's not a solder, this is a masterpiece! WOW

I thought it was a machine, incredible. Amazing hand soldering techniques! Please, Which is the band that plays the background music?

I always wondered how they got it to look so perfect and neat. Now I know!

Amaizing and clean job, it's just perfect...

I've always wanted to be able to solder like this it looks better than a machine!

Best video on surface mount soldering.