How to Tin the Component for Soldering & Circuit Bending

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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So, now what you want to do is basically the same thing but now with the component in place. So we've got our iron here. it's going to clean the tip on wet sponge. You can hear it sizzling away like hot bacon. I'm going to bring it over here. And same thing, I've got my coil of solder here and I'm just going to--actually, let me switch hands here. I'm going to hold the iron against the component and just let the component get really hot. So I've tried to make as much surface contact as I can between the iron and the component. The component's heating up, heating up, heating up. And when it gets hot enough, all I should have to do is touch the solder to the component and not the iron and the solder will flow kinda cleanly on to the component as--let's see if it's happening yet. Yup, there it goes. And you see some of the smoke is coming out. It's a good idea if you don't breathe the smoke. I mean, this is actually a--I think this is a lead-free smolder so this isn't as bad as solders that do have lead in them but, generally, it's not the best idea to breathe the smoke so you might want to work in a kind of ventilated area. I mean--anyway, so but this is a lead-free solder. It's not too bad. And as you can see now, I've basically tinned the component. Now, there's a nice--it's gotten hot enough, and so now that's ready to go. Remember, the main point of all this is that solder needs to be hot but it won't stick to metal that isn't also hot, all right? Hot solder won't stick to cold metal so you need to heat the metal up. And so that's why--well, the stranded wire that we tinned, that heats up really quickly 'cause it's just thin copper strands. A component like this, you have to hold the iron to a little bit longer for it to get hot enough to work out. But then when it does, it's--it gets hot and the solder will flow right over it. So you tin your wire, you tin your component, and then when you're ready to go, then you can connect them.

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