How do I solder this??

[two shoes]

The flux helps to clean the surface and allow proper flow & wetting. It may not require extra flux but I like flux and it cleans easy enough with alcohol and a cut down acid brush.The rosin core solder will tin wire pretty well, but may not be enough for the cup. If you can get the flux, do it. I'd dip the tinned wire in it, insert into the cup, then add heat. I haven't tried using a torch, only an iron or the current tweezers. The current tweezers are great for pin cups as solder will follow/ flow towards the source of heat. If you use an iron, it is likely to get a little solder on the outside of the cup. The tweezers just conduct current and the pin itself acts like a heating element. You can get a small tube at Radio Shack or any electronic component shop.

There was a surplus electronics shop in Denver, but I haven't been there in 7 years... no idea the name of the place and I did drive to get there, but it was just south, south east of down town. Cool old building with all kinds of electronic geek shit!

[opie011]

Cool thanks. I'll try radio shack in the morning. Gotta get this done tomorrow!!

[two shoes]

How'd it go?

[opie011]

Well tried to tin the wires and that was a no go. Never done 6 gauge before....fn sucks. I gave up and moved on to the next part of the project. The wires are ran into the camper already so trying to solder them in the rain didn't work

[gnihcraes]

What are you using to heat everything with? Propane torch man, need some heat and large size solder. Slight crimp on the connector to the wire helps too.

[opie011]

Thanks everyone for the advise. Got it done today. Pulled the wires out of the camper to solder in a more controlled environment (my garage)

Burned a little of the insulation off but I don't think it was a bad job for a non pro . And kudos to the wife for helping!



The final product with the pigtail excess shoved into the camper.

[BPTactical]

Aside from too much solder it looks good E man!
Good call on the shrink tube.

[SideShow Bob]

Aside from too much solder it looks good E man!
Good call on the shrink tube.

Remember Bert, "Bigger the Glob, better the Job."

[opie011]

Aside from too much solder it looks good E man!
Good call on the shrink tube.

Thanks

Remember Bert, "Bigger the Glob, better the Job."

Actually the cup filled up nicely and the solder leveled out at the top.

[two shoes]

Looks good. Not up to flight or NASA standards, but well beyond camper standards... Seriously, you did good.