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Problem with your method of soldering Larry, is you are probebly getting a cold joint that would be prone to failure. You should flux then heat the wire until the wire is hot enough to melt the solder flowing it into the wire. Solder will travel toward the heat.



Exactly the way I was taught in shop class. The difference is that I use the pressurized butane lighter to keep the fire very small so I can easily keep it away from everything around it. It works very well on tiny joints like wiring, I use the big torch for copper pipes. The shrink tubing then gives me an excellent insulator. Plus, I can use the lighter to ignite my stogie.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.