Great Soldering Tip!
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Great Soldering Tip!
Do not solder up a big ol snake for your studio without first sliding the connector pieces onto the cables.
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I'll go you one even better.........when soldering TRS 1/4" plugs.....solder the sleve FIRST!!! then ring & tip can be cut to length & soldered. I could never figure out how Redco & others made such a beautiful looking job of TRS plugs until I soldered a couple of hundred while making lots of studio interconnect & snake cables. I had always done it just as the plug is defined...Tip, Ring, then Sleeve, and it always looked like complete crap. I finally figured out on the last 20 or so connectors... solder the Sleve FIRST! Now my diy cables look & function just as good as the pros..........it only took me 30 or so years to figure this out.......you learn something new every day......hopefully!
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Uhhhg! That SUCKS! And I though just an XLR or TRS cable at a time was bad.
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Oh, the humanity!
I remember reading this -- http://www.aikenamps.com/SafetyTips.html -- a few years back. It has a good deal of sound advice, and a very important reminder:
Never solder in your underwear (don't ask!).
Those are words to live by.
I remember reading this -- http://www.aikenamps.com/SafetyTips.html -- a few years back. It has a good deal of sound advice, and a very important reminder:
Never solder in your underwear (don't ask!).
Those are words to live by.
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If you are desoldering and removing a wire from something like a plug or a pot terminal, don't pull the wire towards your face. I've gotten hot solder splashed in my eyeballs a couple time and its no fun.
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Here's one:
Take as much time as you need and do whatever you need to do to make sure that whatever your soldering will hold its 'finished' position by itself without you holding/touching it before you bring the iron near it. This will make the joint better and also save you from getting burned in one of many different ways.
Take as much time as you need and do whatever you need to do to make sure that whatever your soldering will hold its 'finished' position by itself without you holding/touching it before you bring the iron near it. This will make the joint better and also save you from getting burned in one of many different ways.
ALWAYS wear safety glasses while desoldering, unless you're a fancy pants with a desoldering iron/sucker.rolandk wrote:If you are desoldering and removing a wire from something like a plug or a pot terminal, don't pull the wire towards your face. I've gotten hot solder splashed in my eyeballs a couple time and its no fun.
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