Great video. This is one of the best demonstrations on how to solder small components that are not board-mounted and not subject to much pull apart-stress in normal use. This comment is about the segment from 3:40 to 4:30. (The video captions explain the method,) 1, Tin the wires by adding just a little solder then snip to length 2. Components come pre-tinned, but it helps to add just a little fresh solder. Snip to length. 3. Bring the wires together in a jig. (You can buy a jig or make your own.) 4. When the wires are in contact, touch lightly for a second or so with the tip of the iron with or without out using more solder I tend to use enough tinning to not need more solder. Also with these tiny parts I rely on the solder strength instead of wrapping the wires to get mechanical strength. The resistor in this video looks like a 1/4 watt metal-film axial resistor with leads about 1/2 millimeter or less in diameter. The leads are pre-tinned but if you add a little solder and then snip the leads you should have enough extra solder on the lead to make the join, but not a lump of solder. A magnifying glass for inspecting your work is useful when you are practicing. If you tinned the wire and components enough, just touching the two wires with the tip of the iron when they are in contact should produce a good join. If not, you need to practice more. The idea is to tin the wires and components enough so when they are in contact and heated, the solder already on the wire flows together to make the join. The device I am modifying is about 50 mm (2 inch) diameter and about 10 mm (0.4 inch) thick. So I must clip my leads short, about 2 mm (0.1 inch) after tinning. Heat must be reduced to prevent damage to components. This is the reason for just touching the join with the tip of the iron for a second or so. (I use a 200 watt iron with pencil tip.) (This is not what is shown in videos with bigger wires and bigger components, where you heat the work and the let the work melt the solder.) I have not soldered for ten years. So before I started my current project that has wires of about 1 mm or less including plastic sheath, I practiced for half an hour yesterday, examined the result magnified 3x and then corrected my mistakes today. I will do the same tomorrow. I won''t work on my project until I have recovered my skill. Like most other skills, soldering takes brains and practice. And a good video like this one for refreshing one''s memory.

Brilliant video. Subscribed. You make it so easy. I would have had lumps of solder the size of marbles on the worktop and at least eight burned fingers. I am going to restore a GE C600 radio and will find your videos really helpful.

Thank you for this demo. Its been about 4 decades since i did this last, so your video was a nice reminder.

Thanks for the video. I needed to know how to solder a resistor to the wires for one of my labs so that I can measure the temperature of water. There wasn't much detail on how to do it. It just told us to solder the wires and the resistors and put electrical tape on the soldered joints. So this helped a lot. :)

Great short video showing a variety of methods. Thank you!

Excellent tutorial. Iron on, solder on, solder off, iron off, so simple, many thanks.

Nice vid... would love to know where you got that helping hand as it looks solid and good quality.

Love the helping hands you're using. Can't seem to find a set like that. Can you supply the brand or a link?

Great and helpful video. Thank you.

Awesome. Keep up the good work, man.

Thanks a lot for your video tutorials they are always very good

I have watched so many videos on soldering and yours is the most helpful I've found for my purposes. What do you recommend I do if the solder joint turns out dull?

First off, Thank you very much for these videos. Very helpful. Secondly, I am very new to this hobby, but would like to purchase a new soldering gun and solder to further my learning. In this video, would you be able to tell me, roughly speaking, what temperature your soldering gun was set at? Also, I am guessing there are variations in solder as well. Would you be able to tell me what solder would work best for this project? Thank you so much!

I will need to solder wire coming out of a resister to a the base of a 5mm round silver rod (for a colloidal silver generator). What solder and temperature should I use?

Big help, doing LED's on my studio scale X Wing project, thank you!

what gauge wire are you using?

I know this video was made quite some time ago. Where did you get that set of helping hands? Those are exactly the style I’ve been looking for.

Thank you! good video and helpful

Hello over the Pond Friend ! EXC. ++ VIDEO, PHOTOGRAPHY AND NARRATION !

Was wondering how to go about this for my Star Trek Models and the Lighting Kits I Purchased.

what solder are you using?

Thank you. I have just soldered my first LED with a resistor just like in the video.

Worth noting that "nice and shiny = clean joint" is not the case for lead-free solder which is overall more difficult to solder well

Hey man! When I solder things then all the solder I put on goes down and there is a a big bubble at the bottom and hardly any on the top. How can I get it distributed evenly? Also I have 60% tin 40% lead solder. How likely is it that I could get lead poisoning from it? Thanks for the awesome videos :D

where do u get the helping hands to hold the led n wire in the US. please let me know. its been hard for me when i solder, I've almost burned my hands several times so please let me know~~>

How many watts is your soldering gun? Mine takes a long time to heat up anything enough to get a good joint which makes soldering things like transistors pretty tricky

Thanks for the video... :)

Thank you!

What is the temperature you used?

How do you remove an existing light on a board? Heat it and melt it out? Then replace like you demonstrated?

What temp you using please.

He makes it look so dang easy.

You seem to keep the soldering iron for quite a few seconds on the legs of the LED and resistors without worrying about the fact that the components may get damaged from the heat. What temperature do you set your iron to? I'm asking because I can't find info about the recommended soldering temperature for standard LEDs. I've done quite some soldering these days and I've burned out many LEDs, even though I didn't solder them for more than 5 seconds. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

What does that blue thing do that he sodders to the led light

I've got a question. I don't know too much about electricity, but I have an led wired up, but it keeps blowing, and I have to switch to a new led. Is it because I don't have a resister?

Which is the one you solder the capacitor? Diode (Negative) Iodie (Positive)

When is the next ironman video coming out? Looking forward to it!

thank u

What happens if the led doesn't come on with the resistor attached to it?

Always bear in mind no joint is perfect, just keep going

He is like simply electronics just fancy equipment

$6 on amazon! type soldering holder or soldering aid

I made my own hands[same clips and everything

it looks so easy but when i do it....

peepeepoopoo

In China we do it by machine , full automatic soldering machine , about one pcs one second ,so fast

Well, you failed straight-way. Wipe the tip before soldering, do not wipe after use.