Micro Soldering

Thanks

How long does the metal take to harden? Like do I have to hold the wire in place?

Brilliant, and gives me confidence to replace battery in my Garmin 910XT sports watch. The battery has three wires red, black and green. Is there any chance of damaging the battery by the sequence (rgb <> gbr <> brg ) of soldering? I worry because the new battery may be partially charged, the Iron is earthed, and the watch circuitry has no visible internal Isolation Switch (all the on/off/etc functions are via the micro chip circuitry).

You got some steady hands

Doesn't apply to my problem directly, but still answered my question, therefore, solving my problem! Left with a better education than I came for, which one can only get from a real ninja 🥷. I could've stopped early, but instead stayed for your quality presentation!!! Thank you mate! From America!!!

Fkng outstanding!👏👏👏👍👍👍

Simple and brilliant solution to making a finer tip. Something I hadn't thought of and can attempt my fix now. Thanks

I swear I started watching this saying...I wont learn anything and the first thing you do is Genius.. wrapping the small wire to make a tiny tip...PURE GENIUS...I just did a mind cartwheel I'm so happy!!!... Thank you

Thanks have been battling to solder a chip to a camera lens fantastic help.

Thanks for this video. Just fixed a small MP3 player headphone jack using this idea.

Very COoL. Thank you

good video, thanks

This is genus. Exactly what I was looking for.

Iron wire is also usefull or not?

5 years later and still saving lives. Thanks mate.

thanks g bolt! lit vid my sussy man

Tip is proper, but damn thats an ugly looking connection. Get it down properly mate

Never woudlve thought about wrapping the tip with wire. Will try it.

Can show me u r camera please

NICE

That is actually incredibly useful and helpful. Thank you. I’ll be using that.

nooo the joint looks cold

Life saver....had to de-solder a pro micro, and had solder stuck in the holes and the smallest iron tip I had wouldn't go all the way through. Thx for this vid!

Good Idea. Thanks you.

Thanks

I want to male. My wireless headphone so need to buy this one.... Always repaired headphones never bought 😅

What's wire rounding?

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pussy, file the tip down, heat flow is more reliable. £3 tip , 30 min work will last. an old tip filed is perfect.

GENIUS!

Thanks a lot for posting this

thanks, i've learned a lot from this vid

Will it work with a copper wire?

Thanks for the gems! Wrapping the Iron Tip and the Silicone wire wrap that doesn't burn/crumble. Perfect!

Great advise, thanks for sharing.

what size is the copper wire
need to solder wires on eemprom chips and currently struggling

I gather that this was a demonstrative video for micro soldering in general. Good idea coiling the coper wire. However, in this particular example, since you are soldering in the corner of the pcb, you could actually use a soldering iron with a normal tip to do the job. Cheers.

I have just tried the hack after watching this video and got success. Thanks for your great idea.

Thanks bud I just need one of those micro scope things

excellent job man

i cant wait to try this!

i have a loose micro USB port on an elite xbox controller and the contacts are like 2mm wide 1mm apart and i have an old xbox 360 usb cord i want to install permanently and this is likely the only way i could use my current soldering iron with 1 style of basic large tip

micro usb has 5 connections 5 volt, data +, data -, ID mode detect, and Ground. but the USB cable i have from an xbox 360 controller only has4 connections and the 360 controller wired controller has no 5th connection as ID for USB connection. can anyone tell me if the new xbox one controller really uses the 4th pin micro usb ID connection?? i doubt it as that conection seems to be for usb memory drives communicating with devices but i also happen to know new xbox one controller receive firmware updates and the old 360 wired controllers did not

can nayone tell me the significance of the 4 pin ID / mode selcet connection for new xbox one controllers? cna i get away with just soldering a full size USB in place of the micro USB without the micro usb's 4th pin ID?

did you use flux welding wire? its made out of copper and has a fine pitch usually.

Well done thank you 👍

Which type of wire round on tip sir ? Can you tell me

You sound like Korg from Thor: Ragnarok and it makes me very happy.

Great Video. Thanks man!

The copper wire's a great tip, thanks for sharing, your comment about better eyesight when you're young reminded me of the time we used to work on miniature devices so small everything had to be done on the screen through the microscope.

Sawl-der, I'm not a Brit, so it stands out...cheers!

Use Kapton tape to avoid ESD issues.