Soldering Basics Video just uploaded...

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I just put a video on basic soldering for modelers. I hope you find it helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBji-Oz3J7E

Paul

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Hi Paul,

If you’d like you can also post this video on the Model Railroader User Videos page. Here’s the link:

http://mrr.trains.com/community/user-videos

Thanks,

Dana Kawala

Senior editor

Model Railroader magazine

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Thanks Dana,

I just submitted it along with another video that might be of interest to model railroaders

Paul

http://paulbudzik.com/

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Not a bad video, (you certainly stress “The Solder goes where the heat flows”), but I didn’t see you suggest minimum power levels for either the Soldering Iron or the Soldering Gun, to guarentee some success in soldering.

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That was a very good general demo on soldering, Paul. [tup] It also gave me a better understanding of techniques used for soldering brass together.

Tom

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Paul, excellent refresher. I haven’t done any modeling soldering for about 40 years and just picked up on old Suydam kit that will require lots of cleaning, flux and good heat control. I will be using my old small soldering iron that has about a 3/8 inch chisel tip. Previously I had excellent results using this electric heated iron. I have also used a Weller soldering gun with some sucess but perfer the actual chisel point iron. Appreciated your recommendation on 50-50 solder.

By the way, my experience with a tourch has been mixed. With new plumbing fittings I can always produce good solder joints. With older pipe and tubing its really a mixed bag as sometimes you just can’t seem to clean up the surface good enough for a good flowing joint. I

have also had problems getting the fittings dry enough to solder, a problem you don’t have to deal with in soldering models.