Having a son of a rhymes with witch of a time getting solder to stick to the negative washer on the fatdaddy 510. What am I missing here?
Fatdaddy 510 help
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I ended up getting a wired 510 off EBay. I never got the solder to hold. Obviously there are people with the skill but practice as I did, no success.
Sand the surface you want to put solder on and get it really hot as in the whole washer feels hot the all the way maybe use some extra flux.
Haven't soldered to a fatdaddy washer/tab but Have soldered brass stock that looks the same size and wire up to 8ga. I sand the area and use 63/37 solder, also helps that my iron goes up to 900*. You are pre tinning the tab and wire right?
Yeah. I do need a better iron anyway. Using a cheap one I got long ago to do one thing with. Upgrade is overdue.
I sanded the area and then wraped the wire around it. Once I applied an ample amount of solder (enough to fill the hole basically) I used a file and sanded that down so it sat flush against my case. Otherwise the connector sat crooked ><
That washer is fair slug of metal to heat, add to that if you have it already installed...add to that again if your mod box is aluminum...that's a mighty big heatsink for any iron to overcome...anything that big I pre solder a neg lead to it with a butane torch. If you try and do it in place you risk melting the delrin connector and internal o ring while waiting for your iron to get it hot enough...just saying
I would use a torch and some plumbers flux to get it tinned before hand. Then I would think you would be able to solder to it easily.
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