Posted by The Watcher in the Sky on 21, 2001 at 10:10 AM:
A friend of mine has told me that the best way to solder wires on a PCB (from a PSX cheap pad) is to heat the metallic spot on the pcb with the solder and then touch it with the tin, which will melt on its hot surface. However, I've also heard it's not a good thing to heat a PCB, as you take the risk of damaging it, if you for instance take too much time to solder one spot. Then, heating directly the PCB with the solder means damaging the PCB, which is contrary to my friend's expert recomendations? I have drilled 1mm holes on every hot metallic spot, so as to pass the wire through and solder on the other side (I guess the result is stronger this way). Now I have this doubt, where shoud I apply heat with the solder and how do I manage to drop the neccesary quantity of tin (I've been trying and testing (not with the PCB of course), and the main problem is that the tin glues to the solder and no matter if you touch the surface with it, that the tin wont fall until there's a big amount hanging from the tip of the solder.