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Learn to Solder
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Learn to Solder

by Brian Jepson, Tyler Moskowite, Gregory Hayes
May 2012
Beginner
54 pages
50m
English
Make: Community
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Welcome

Welcome to MAKE’s Learn to Solder, the companion book to our Getting Started with Soldering Kit. Congratulations on taking a big step into the world of DIY electronics. Once you get the hang of soldering, you can put together some of the many great kits that are available, fix electronics that are broken, and build inventions of your own. With this kit, you’ll learn how to:

  • Prepare and clean your soldering iron

  • Assemble electronic circuits from kits

  • Solder reliable connections that are neat and clean

  • Correct soldering mistakes you’ve made

Basic Tools

There’s a lot of great stuff in the box, and before you start using it, here’s a tour of what you’ll find in there. Figure 1 shows the soldering tools you’ll be using most of the time.

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