Some Information About Hand Soldering

Here is some information about soldering that you may find useful.

Capacitance Meter Kit - Used in Workshop Technology classes

• Instructions for assembling the kit, revised 15 April 2015. (1.42 MB PDF Document)
• Schematic Diagram (329 KB PDF document)
• Bill of Materials (86 KB PDF document)

Work Health and Safety

• PPE for Soldering: It is essential that you have your own approved safety glasses for soldering.
• Project Risk Assesment (190 KB PDF file)
• Safe Operating Procedure - Soldering and De-fluxing (36 KB PDF file)
• Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)
  • Multicore solder MSDS (115 KB PDF file)
  • Isopropanol MSDS (47 KB PDF file)
  • Chemtools No Clean Flux Pen MSDS (41 KB PDF file)

Tools and Materials

• Hakko FX888D Soldering Station (978 KB PDF file)
  • Hakko FX888D Website
  • Video: How to use Hakko Shape D (chisel) tips Scroll down the page and click on the links "See the movie for more details" - particularly under "Point soldering PTH"
• Solder - Multicore 0.7mm diameter 60/40 Lead/Tin flux-cored solder wire, with 309 flux. Melting temperature 180C (356F). Technical Data Sheet (72 KB PDF file)
• De-fluxing solvent - Isopropanol. Technical Data Sheet (41 KB PDF file)
• Flux - Chemtools No Clean Flux Pen. Technical Data Sheet (143 KB PDF file)

Solder Joint Inspection

The IPC (Association Connecting Electronics Industries) is a global association of printed circuit and electronics assembly industries. It manages standards for these industries and provides training and certification.

• NASA Workmanship Standards: Through-hole Soldering
• NASA Workmanship Standards: Through-hole Soldering (22MB PDF file)

Some Soldering Videos

• Video: "Hand soldering for through hole components' by IPC Training
• Video: "Through hole component preparation pliers method" by Norman Mier from BEST Inc.
• Video: "Soldering a through-hole resistor to IPC class 3" by Norman Mier from BEST Inc.
• Video: How to use Hakko Shape D (chisel) tips Scroll down the page and click on the links "See the movie for more details" - particularly under "Point soldering PTH"
• Video: "Solder flux removal" probably using isopropanol, ESD-free brush and lint-free wipes.
• Dave Jones EEVBlog through-hole soldering. (34 mins) Dave is a Sydney electrical engineer noted for his "over-enthusiastic" electrical engineering video blog.
• Movie: Fantastic demonstration of surface-mount soldering by John Gammell. You won't be doing surface mount in the soldering lab but this is too inspiring to leave out!