Being a complete newbie at soldering electronics, is there any difference in how you do the soldering if you're using braided sheath wire like this - http://www.pitbullguitars.com/shop/u...-shield-500mm/?
Being a complete newbie at soldering electronics, is there any difference in how you do the soldering if you're using braided sheath wire like this - http://www.pitbullguitars.com/shop/u...-shield-500mm/?
Originally Posted by peterh
There's not a whole lot of difference when it comes to soldering vintage braided wire like that, except for the preparation prior to soldering, I happen to have a short piece of wire like that and I can easily do a few pics to show how to prepare it for soldering, will post the pics shortly so stay tuned.
Here's how I prepared a piece of vintage braid-shielded cloth-wire I used for the output-jack in my Strat build ( I'm using a short leftover piece for this):
I started off by cutting the wire to length:
Next I held the wire between my thumb and index finger about 13mm from the end of the wire , and carefully pushed the braid back till the inner-wire was exposed:
After doing that, I used the tip of a multimeter probe to carefully poke a hole in the braid:
Next I bent the wire back on itself where the hole in the braid was:
After doing that, I used the multimeter probe to enlarge the hole in the braid, and then I pulled the inner wire through the hole in the braid:
Last edited by DrNomis_44; 06-04-2016 at 10:28 AM.
After doing that I pushed back the inner-wire cloth insulation to expose the inner-wire:
And then I put the wire in a holding device called a Third-Hand, and tinned the exposed inner-wire and the braid:
Next, I cut two short pieces of heatshrink tubing, I slipped one of the pieces of heatshrink over the wire and the other piece over the braid, then I used the tip of my soldering iron to shrink the tubing on the braid, after I did that, I slid the other piece of heatshrink-tubing into place and used my iron to shrink it, I ended up with a neat looking piece of shielded wire:
Thanks Doc! very helpful.
Doc, thank you for this post. My son and I are building his EX-5 bass and when it comes to wiring and soldering we're both new and uneducated about it. Having access to your years of experience is invaluable to us, so thank you for that.
No worries at all mate, learning how to solder is a bit like learning how to ride a bike, it takes a bit of practice but eventually you do get good at it.
interesting!
Huge thank you for this - I haven’t received my kit yet (awaiting delivery) and I will be referring back to this for sure. As with everything else with this build I am a complete newbie and need to learn everything from scratch
This is great Doc! Thanks for posting and sharing this info! I really need it.
Cheers,
rokit
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It’s been at least 20 years since I last did any serious soldering as I am a desk jockey and back then it was telephone wiring that I did so not really delicate stuff.
This is a SSS pickguard which is going into my first ever rebuild. I wanted to do something that was cost effective and gave me practice before I tackle something more complex.
So Wilkinson pickups, CTS pots and a Switchcraft 5 way.
Thanks for the tute. It reaffirmed my assumptions in soldering technique. It still looks like a duck had a go on the earth points though.
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