paceworldwide Almost 9 years since you guys posted this series, and they’re *still* the best, hands down. Nobody else has come close to making soldering tutorials as good as yours. P.S. I used to live in various places in Maryland, not far from your old Silver Spring and literally 10 minutes from your current Elkridge locations, and as a kid I lived in Durham, NC. :)
It's like those science videos we used to watch at school (in Australia) in the 70's. Most of us used to fall asleep in class back then too ! Good videos though : I have learned a lot.
ungratefulmetalpansy "male qualities" lol. Before the 90s when computers started entering family homes and dumnb parents started to shoo girls away from them since they were for "logical boys" rather than "emotional girls", and programming was more academic, female programmers were quite common and responsible for many advancements. This idea that men are better at logic is a cultural misconception based on the need to justify the unfair treatment of women, not something supported by hard scientific evidence. So if you truly respect the "qualities of logic and teaching", learn what is true before commenting on such things
I have a number of vintage audio amps, pre-amps, tuners, etc. and I generally open them up give them a good cleaning both general dust and also Deoxit the physical switches, selectors and sliders before plugging them in. I still remember "popping the hood" on my Sansui AU-517 (great but not top of the line) and I was struck by how beautifully it was designed and assembled. It was soldering craftsmanship I can only hope to achieve. I'll keep practicing.
I've watched all the videos in this series, some more than once and I feel like it's been a mini apprenticeship. Having soldered many things over the years, I can say that the soldering I just completed is my best ever and a direct result of the understanding gained and practical guidance given in this series. Brilliant! and as others have mentioned, very watchable! I wonder where the chap giving the turorial is today :-)
I realy love, how this old Lession is still useable in almost any situation. Made in China... They should learn, how to solder like PACE Inc. I saw many Chinese products, where the ammout of solder might be good, but there are often cold joints or leads bent wrong. Also: Why do chinese factories use that thin wire, that breaks after moving it 3 times? In this video, you clearly see, what a good cable looks like. I love it much. Thanks, it is entertaining me, to see such good work!
Oh mann I'm so glad I found this video, I'm sad to say I'm sloppy at soldering really bad needed to find an excellent instructional video that I could see and understand ! Many thanks for making and posting this video really well done !
This is awesome! Learning new things from these. Have an interview on Monday for night vision assembly and I'm sure this knowledge will come in handy there.
It all depends on the contracts QA department set standards etc. Please use Pace's social networks tweeter or face book for your desire to discuss at length these issues. Kindest Regards, Marc
Sorry to be immature, but if you take some of these quotes out of context, they can be quite funny. Talking about strippers and tips. In seriousness, this is the best soldering videos I have ever seen. I don't think there will be a need to watch any other soldering videos, ever again after seeing these.
Old Skool... found several mistakes I have been making... thank you for the upload! Still in search of solution for problem of flux leeching up strands, that corrode strands inside insulation. (currently using Topnik RF-800 "SMD", "no-clean"? , applied very sparingly with syringe...)
Wattmaster German wire strippers that's what I use, most of those on the video is obsolete. No one I've ever known used thermal strippers, mostly because of its inconvinience.
30 watt? I keep hearing 60 watt is the way to go. Just bought a new Weller that boasts 60 Watt. I know there's different applications but it seems they used to just use 30 watt here. What is best for electronics today?
@@johndaniels972 When it comes to temperatures, 100 experts will give 100 different answers. I solder at 371C, the upper limit I was given. Used to solder at 350, but was told that would burn things up by taking too long. (Especially transistors and such.)
An "expert" that touches the solder to the iron's tip? HMMM/bogus! Solder flows to the hottest spot, THEREFORE, one heats the components to be joined, and touches the solder wire to the opposite spot, AWAY from the iron's tip.
If you listened to the video, you notice that only just enough solder is added to the tip to form a thermal bridge to the joint, then solder is added to the backside. Not doing this can cause cold solder joints since the heat of the iron is not getting efficiently transferred to the joint.
I suspect they aren't as popular today as implied by the video, because the off-gassing of heating PVC (chlorine gas!) and Teflon is not something you really want to breathe.
Normally a tutorial this old would make you think the information would be inapplicable, outdated or even invalid but not in this case, what an awesome tutorial, informative, coherent and concise. Thank you for sharing this!
With this kind of information, where there is little if any change in the technique, the older videos are often even better. Just the pure information, no background music, no ad breaks, just the actual information.
God knows how old this video is looks like a 70s or 80s production , but it beats hands down any other viedo on the said topic that I have come across in RU-vid :-) cheers people visiting this video should first watch Part 1
Been there, trained on that... I am still anal on my soldering though. I guess we ain't going to the moon again. PACE still has no clue what they are doing, sorry Marc. Oxidation is a Bitch!
Coax is no picnic either, even with purpose-built strippers. To begin with, I don't even think the smaller gauges have such tools. (At least I've never found one.) And it's incredible easy to nick that fragile braid. I'd love one of those heated tools.
Yea we have thermal strippers but we aren't amateurs so it is easier to use the v notch ones they say not to. Just don't cut down all the way and you don't nik the wire lol
