Splicing Servo Wires

[Flash1940]

This is my first post here....I hope my attachment makes it.
Let me know if this is the right way to do this sort of thing.

Flash

[frank48]

Hi :)

Attachment made it !!

Like the idea with the clothes peg & board :rolleyes:

Cheers Frank

[Flash1940]

Thanks.....glad you could view it.....Maybe some will get benefit from the little blurb. The photography took more time than doing it !

Flash

[Bearded Flyer]

Frank,

I have been soldering for many years and have never heard of the damp pipe cleaner trick to stop the insulation getting too hot. Do you wrap the pipe cleaner around the wire or clamp it on with the clothes peg?

Richard

[Flash1940]

Frank,

I have been soldering for many years and have never heard of the damp pipe cleaner trick to stop the insulation getting too hot. Do you wrap the pipe cleaner around the wire or clamp it on with the clothes peg?

Richard

No....just put a bend in it....like fold it upon itself....then hook it over the wire insulation near your solder joint. Stick your forefinger up....then bend it toward the web of your thumb....get the idea....
You don't need a whole pipe cleaner....cut off about two inches....then fold it in half....
BTW....this idea wasn't mine....it really belongs to Heath. The sweating of wires together though, is my idea. Most twist the wires together....then solder. I don't like this technique. I put the damp pipe cleaner on the wire after securing the wire in the clamp.

Flash

[Bearded Flyer]

Flash,

I never try to solder wires after they are twisted together I always tin them first and then sweat them together which can be fun when there are three wires! With motor wires I have sometimes teased the strands apart and pushed the two ends together forming a splice before soldering. This with flux and the correct size/heat of iron makes a good joint that is the same diameter as the wire.

Richard

[Flash1940]

[B]I like this technique also. It's a little more difficult....but the over-all connection is lower profile. Done properly....the solder joint is nearly invisible....except for a little stiffness & the heat shrink tubing.

Flash

[Ricardo RW]

That 'pipe cleaner' is it a kind of rag or cloth? Sorry, can't get it. :o

[Rodney]

For servo wires (or most electical work) a simple splice made by stripping approx. 1/4 inch of insulation off each wire, tinning them and then laying the stripped area side by side and reheat to melt the tinned area will more than suffice. No need for the fancy twisting etc. to get a perfectily reliable joint that is slim and easily insulated with a heat shrink sleeve. You will not be able to pull it apart under normal use.

[Flash1940]

For servo wires (or most electical work) a simple splice made by stripping approx. 1/4 inch of insulation off each wire, tinning them and then laying the stripped area side by side and reheat to melt the tinned area will more than suffice. No need for the fancy twisting etc. to get a perfectily reliable joint that is slim and easily insulated with a heat shrink sleeve. You will not be able to pull it apart under normal use.

I felt the twisting was necessary because of the fact that there are two connectors and their wire going to one servo. I simply didn't have enough hands & fingers to hold the wires in place. For a simple one-to-one splice....I would follow your technique.

The pipe cleaner is just what it says it is. In a craft store you can buy them in all sorts of colors and sizes. I got a pack of them at Wallgreens....check in the pipe tobacco section....lighter fluid....flints....etc.


Flash

[Ricardo RW]

The pipe cleaner is just what it says it is. In a craft store you can buy them in all sorts of colors and sizes. I got a pack of them at Wallgreens....check in the pipe tobacco section....lighter fluid....flints....etc.


Flash

Pipes, the smoking ones...!! shame on me, I was thinking on plumbing pipes... hahaha, well, I live on a Spanish realm.