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- 25 or 40 watt soldering iron gun for guitar electronics?
I noticed using a 25 watt iron while replacing my electronics on my strat that it was very difficult to get a proper hot joint It took what I felt is an excessively long time to heat it enough to melt the solder, a couple minutes give or take Is a 40 watt iron or gun a better way to go for guit
- Soldering iron wattage - Electric Guitars - Harmony Central
Before I go out and buy a soldering iron to do pickup and guitar wiring with, I want to make sure I'm headed in the right direction As I understand it, the best all-around wattage for working on a guitar is 40 watts and the best brand of iron to get is a Weller Am I correct?
- Soldering and heat sinks: please educate me. - Harmony Central
Hi guys I'm looking to get started on my first DIY pedal build I have some soldering practice from modding stompboxes, changing pickups, etc But this stompbox I'm building has some transistors in it, and I've been told that the heat from the iron may damage the transistors, and I need to use a
- Which solder for guitar wiring? - Harmony Central
Which solder is optimal for guitar wiring? I seem to have a spool of this lead-free rosin-core solder solder It contains 97 3% tin, 0 7% copper, 2 0% rosin flux core Would this work well for guitar wiring? In the past I've used Radioshack 60 40 rosin-core solder, but I've run out Should I just
- Any way to wire a guitar without soldering? - Harmony Central
It'd be nice, if you're swapping out pups just to see how they sound, to be able to do it without de-soldering and re-soldering several times Is there any GOOD way to wire without soldering? If only temporarily?
- Connectors instead of soldering - Harmony Central
There was a discussion on this a long time back, a few years probably, but has anyone tried to replace pickups by using connectors instead of resoldering wires onto the pots directly? For instance, if you are happy with the pots and caps, but want to try new pickups, you can just "unconnect" the
- Removing Soldering Potentiometers - Harmony Central
I'm thinking about putting on some new tone potentiometers on my first guitar (Squier strat), then if i'm confident enough i'll change all the pots on my new Squier tele as the pots are really bad - i can hear some crackling when i turn up the treble There's lots of info on the web about solderin
- Can too much heat (solder iron) damage guitar pots?
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