solder stick

[jniolon]

here's an excellent forum post on crimping by the way

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/dont-crimp-my-style.24610/

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[tperson]

(quoted from post at 18:11:05 07/23/23) Stevie, I am not much good at soldering either, by the time the wire and solder are hot enough the insulation is melting a ways back from the joint. Maybe I am using the wrong solder, seems I've tried several. Thats why I ask about the solder stick, thought it might be the answer to my skill set lol. gobble

As others have said, this may be because your iron is too small/too cold to heat the joint up quickly. It may also be caused by lack of flux. Slobber a little flux on your ends before you insert them into the terminal or after you've made the splice (I use the paste Ruby Fluid from Ace), hold a cleaned, tinned, HOT iron to the joint along with the solder and it'll flow like water. Kinda like sweating pipes: gotta be clean, gotta have plenty of flux, and gotta have enough heat to do the job.