Soldering

This is a page all about the wonderful art of soldering! It covers electronics soldering, jewelry soldering, sculptural soldering, and links to helpful places around the internet to view guides and read more.

Electronics Soldering

Working with circuits, wires, and electrical components. Have a website you love to get parts from, or recommend a certain tool? Add it to one of the categories below!

Open Hack Nights

Every Friday 6-8pm the makerspace hosts Open Hack Nights.

Come to the Electronics Lab and tinker, share, and chat with other makers working on fun projects!

Recommended Equipment

• Soldering Iron: At least a 40 Watt, or one with variable temprature
  • Or a Soldering Iron Station: Weller WLC100 Soldering Station or Yihua 936
• Electrical Solder: any Lead-free Rosin Core solder
• Solder Paste for surface mount (SMD, SMT) parts
• Brush-on Flux: Rosin Paste Flux (this helps the solder stick to your metal if it is a difficult or large piece)
• Wire-strippers/clippers
• A cork mat to work on
• Helping hands

Helpful Accessories

• Heat shrink tubing
• Pliers
• Lamp
• Magnifier

Where to buy stuff

• Online Electronics Hobby Stores:
  • Sparkfun: http://www.sparkfun.com
  • Adafruit: http://www.adafruit.com
  • Makershed: http://www.makershed.com
  • Radioshack: http://www.radioshack.com

• Good places to get parts:
  • Mouser: http://www.mouser.com
  • Octopart: http://www.octopart.com
  • Electronics Goldmine: http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com
  • A Maine-based company: http://www.leading-leds.com
  • Need batteries? http://www.cheap-batteries.com/
  • Parts and kits: http://www.allelectronics.com/
  • Guitar parts and kits: http://www.stewmac.com

• Robotics and 3D Printing:
  • Pololu http://www.pololu.com/
  • Trossen Robotics http://www.trossenrobotics.com/

• Refresher guide on soldering from Sparkfun: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-solder---through-hole-soldering

Jewelry Soldering

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Sculptural Soldering

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