1 EEVblog #180 - Soldering Tutorial Part 1 - Tools
First part of Dave Jones's soldering tutorial series, covering irons, tips, solder and technique; often named as the one soldering guide a newcomer needs.
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39 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.
2 Basic Soldering Lesson 1 - "Solder & Flux"
The opening lesson of the vintage PACE soldering course, regarded as the definitive grounding in flux, wetting and joint quality despite its age.
3 EEVblog #183 - Soldering Tutorial Part 2
Part two of Dave Jones's soldering tutorial covers through-hole technique on plated boards; frequently recommended to beginners alongside parts one and three.
4 EEVblog #317 - PCB Tinning Myth Busting
Dave Jones measures how much solder over exposed traces lowers resistance, finding roughly a 50 percent cut on 1 oz copper; cited for high current PCB traces.
5 Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping
A go-to demonstration of building circuits on perfboard, linked whenever someone asks how to move a project off the breadboard.
6 EEVblog #186 - Soldering Tutorial Part 3 - Surface Mount
Dave Jones's long tutorial on surface mount soldering by hand, hot air and paste, recommended before attempting small packages.
7 Basic Soldering Lessons 1 - 9
The old PACE soldering training films, still considered the best grounding in proper technique despite their age and dated production.
8 EEVblog #167 - Atten 858D Hot Air Rework Review
Dave Jones reviews the budget Atten 858D hot air rework station; people cite it when choosing a first hot air tool for SMD work.
9 HowTo: Drag Soldering Demo
Short demonstration of drag soldering fine-pitch SMD pins with a bead of solder; answerers recommend it alongside the advice to use plenty of flux.
10 EEVblog #954 - How To Setup An Electronics Lab For $300
Often shared with newcomers asking what to buy for a first electronics bench, with the usual caveat that not everything listed is essential.
11 EEVblog #181 - Dead Bug Prototype Soldering
An EEVblog demonstration of dead bug soldering a tiny surface mount chip, offered as a workable technique for prototyping such packages, with warnings that it needs skill.
12 Professional Soldering: Hand Soldering Techniques - Lead Free
A demonstration of what properly formed solder joints look like, sometimes linked alongside an IPC standard example when someone posts cold joints.
13 Weller How to use a Soldering Tip Activator - Application Video
Shows how a soldering iron tip activator is used to restore an oxidised tip, linked when brass wool and a sponge are no longer enough.
14 Soldering basics and choosing a cheap soldering iron.
Regularly cited for sensible guidance on picking a budget temperature controlled soldering station and using it well.
15 Collin's Lab: Soldering
A five minute soldering primer from Adafruit, widely offered to beginners as a good first overview before picking up an iron.
16 How to Solder Electronics
A short, older introduction to soldering that beginners are pointed to repeatedly as a quick way to learn the basics before picking up an iron.
17 How to Do It: Basic Soldering
A basic soldering lesson, praised as excellent and linked by others as the how-to for joining wires and soldering through hole pins.
Hidden gem18 Soldering Tutorial for Beginners: Five Easy Steps
A short soldering primer showing the basic technique, handed to beginners who struggle to get solder flowing onto header pins.
19 How to Solder Electronics
A long-standing soldering tutorial handed to beginners whose joints look rough, covering tinning the iron, flux and getting the temperature right.
20 Beginner how to Solder
A beginner's soldering demonstration, pointed to when people's joints show poor technique or no flux.
21 *EXPERT LEVEL* Soldering Tutorial #5 TTC Avionics
NASA's avionics soldering procedure, thorough to the point of excess for hobby work but valued for reliability-critical builds and its flux cleaning section.
22 What Is Flux? | Soldering
An explanation of what solder flux does and why it helps, linked whenever solder refuses to wet a pad or wire.
23 How To Splice Wires to NASA Standards
A practical demonstration of the lineman splice for joining wires, recommended by users and posted alongside the NASA workmanship splice standard.
24 Soldering
A soldering tutorial playlist recommended for learning technique, including surface-mount work and packages with a thermal pad underneath.
25 EEVblog #596 - World's Cheapest Soldering Station - Yihua 936
An EEVblog look at cheap Yihua soldering stations, generally cited as evidence that these Hakko clones are adequate for beginners and light use.
26 When to use Flux ?
A detailed look at what flux does and how it transforms soldering, repeatedly described as something every solderer should see at least once.
Hidden gem27 How To Solder Properly, With Extra Tips!
Mr Carlson's Lab soldering demonstration, recommended as solid practical advice on technique from a channel known for vintage electronics.
28 EEVblog #1058 - Quick 861DW Hot Air Rework Station Review
Dave Jones's EEVblog review of the Quick 861DW hot air station, cited when people recommend it as a good value rework tool.
29 Basic Soldering Lesson 6 - "Component Soldering"
Lesson six of Pace's vintage soldering course on component soldering, with dated footage but techniques the community still considers valid.
30 *EXPERT LEVEL* Soldering Tutorial #1 TTC Avionics
Part of a NASA standard soldering series showing how to tin wires and make high reliability joints, more than hobby work needs yet instructive.
31 Desolder SMD without special tools
Shows a desoldering trick using a shaped piece of copper to heat every pin of a chip at once, suggested for removing chips without special tools.
32 tinning a stripped wire
Quick demonstration of tinning wire ends before soldering, suggested to beginners whose joints are not flowing properly.
33 How to use desoldering braid
A demonstration of desoldering braid lifting solder from joints, linked whenever beginners ask how to remove components cleanly.
34 Desoldering Made Easy - Amazing Trick || Soldering Tutorial
A desoldering tutorial whose copper wire trick lets a plain iron heat every pin of a small SMD chip at once, with no hot air needed.
35 How to fit a reset switch to your Raspberry Pi Rev 2
Explains how to add a momentary reset switch to the Raspberry Pi's reset header, a simple soldering job linked repeatedly as the standard how-to.
36 Choosing The Right Solder, Tech Tips Tuesday.
An in-depth explanation of soldering flux, recommended for understanding why clean metal and the right flux matter for good joints.
37 EEVblog #555 - 555 Timer Kit
Dave from EEVblog builds a discrete 555 timer kit, linked as an entertaining example of how the chip works from components.
38 Ben Heck’s DIY Calculator
Ben Heck builds a portable graphical calculator from scratch, cited as inspiration for handheld projects and for his tidy soldering technique.
39 eBay clock kit. Full build and setting guide.
Big Clive assembles an electronic kit with a seven-segment display and examines its board, linked as a reference when troubleshooting the same kit.
