9-26-08

OEES 175 Soldering
Bruce McDowell
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Fall 2008

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Homework & Class Exercises

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Lab Work

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GH26-01 Loops 10 Ten hook-to-hook splices (wires soldered end-to-end to form a ring).

Use solid white wire to be found in the upper right-hand drawer. If the tip of your soldering iron cannot be tinned (coated with solder), then try rubbing it vigorously on the block of sal amoniac (white block about two inches square). If this doesn't work, get a file from the miscellanous drawer and file the black slag off of the tip. (The miscellaneous drawer is labeled and is located beneath the bench opposite the mock-up room.) Filing is a last resort. Doing so removes the thin plating of corrosion-resistant metal and exposes bare copper. Copper corrodes quide rapidly, and the tip will not last very long once the copper has been exposed.
HH29-14 Parallel splices 10 8-29 9-5 Join wires together with five parallel splices (no shrink tubing).
HH29-15 Resistors on PCB 10 8-29 9-5 Solder five resistors onto a printed circuit board.
HH29-16 Wires on 3 pots 10 8-29 9-5 Solder wires onto three potentiometers, with shrink tubing.
HH29-17 Wire stripping 5

Strip both ends of five wires being careful not to have any nicks. Have the instructor watch while you strip the wires.
HH29-18 Mini-grabber test leads
HH29-19 Isometric sketching 9-5
HI05-10 Soldering lugs onto heavy gauge wire 9-5
HI05-12 PC board design 9-5
GH27-09 Staggered splice 9-26 Handout
HI26-11 Solder wires onto pushbuttons and put stripes onto pushbuttons 9-26 Verbal directions
HI26-12 Radio control 9-26 Read about radio-controlled model cars, and determine what parts we need to buy in order to build our cars from scratch (not from a kit). Hobby Lobby (www.hobby-lobby.com/contents.htm) has lots of radio control components. Wikipedia.org would be another good resource.

Reference
Wikipedia Article on Soldering Wikipedia Article on Solder
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