Oxidation can negatively impact the conductivity and cause the solder joint to fail. To avoid this, use a rosin flux on the wire strands you solder together. Keep the tip of your soldering gun ...

[Tom] doesn’t much like breadboarding. He prefers to wire up prototypes with perfboard and solder point-to-point with enameled magnet wire. That may sound troublesome to some of you, but [Tom ...

Both of them use a piece of wire and, in a way, extend the reach of your soldering iron’s tip. Copper wire would work better because of superior thermal conductivity, but other types of solid ...