Chapter 13

Solder and Assembly Methods

SOLDERING

Compared to the other ways of making permanent connections, crimp, wire-wrap, and automatic terminals, solder is by far the most common method of joining conductors to components, printed circuit boards, terminals, and connectors. Although soldering is fast and flexible to experienced users, it is not as simple as it first appears. It needs instruction and a few pointers to become really easy and reliable. Even the mention of soldering might seem irrelevant to experienced people, but it’s a fact that many people can’t solder for nuts, even if they have spent considerable time in various departments of the audio industry, and their work regularly falls apart or goes noisy at moments of maximum ...

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