Please read the description/textbox first. This video is/will be a part of a series of 2 video’s where I show how to solder tin plate objects. This is video 2 of the series.
Please be aware of the extremely sharp edges of tin plate and tin cans when you work with them, or cut them with a scissor, etc. This is a disclaimer.
Video 1 about the soldering techniques is here https://youtu.be/79tf7n3pyj0
In this case I made a tiny (1 liter) petroleum can with the help of some salvaged tin plate (out of cream spray/aerosol cans) and a tin plate food can of 1 litert.
The 2 video’s need not so much more explanation, so enjoy them.
Anyway, some things to tell:
The videos can also be considered when looking at the more serious soldering work in electronic circuits, say soldering a tin plate box, a wire to the mass-contact (the “one and only earth connection in an amplifier”) when that mass contact is a steel (iron) plate.
Such a thick steel (iron) plate can take up so much heat that soldering a wire to it can be cumbersome and/or such a wire easily breaks off when you don’t do that with a high quality 100 Watt soldering iron (not a 100 Watt soldering pistol…..).
Some types of steel cannot be soldered, in general mild steel boxes for electronics can be soldered via good cleaning (scraping, "sandpapering") and with the help of some soldering fluid.
Thus & anyway in all cases: use a 100 Watt good quality soldering iron, say made by the brand “Ersa” from Germany. The tip of these soldering irons is covered with a unique layer that prevents this soldering instrument from burning out the tip via extreme heat corrosion.
So after many uses with a piece of cloth you can wipe the tip easy and completely clean and shiny. That is a unique property of this soldering iron (used in this video, by the way).
In all these cases: the surfaces must be absolutely clean (sandpaper/scraping) and some soldering fluid or “soldering fat” (Dutch term) can be used to make the solder flow all over.
And even via the capillary effect, through which solder can flow/creep into the inside of (copper) joints/tubes, making them completely tight for water or other fluids.
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