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Originally Posted by spikey_58
Thanks for the tips folks. I think I chose the hardest thing poddible for my first solder job - Deans which are a bit of a pain anyway and with the thickest cables imaginable. Nothing like being thrown in at the deep end hey.
I remembered the heat shrink - although I had to go to maplin and buy some 7mil shrink as the shrink I had was pretty much the diametre of the LRP cables so wouldnt fit over the soldered plug ends anyway. Another lesson learnt.
As for leaded - well theres another tip as the stuff which came with my iron is lead free so that may not be helping then.
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Make sure you keep the male and female plugs together when soldering so they dont change shape if you over heat them while soldering the wires on.............!!!
