If you’re soldering skills are anything as bad as ours, you probably spend more time shouting at the red hot pointy bit and dropping hot blobs of solder on your nadgers than actually successfully joining bits of metal together.
To help fumbling buffoons like us, a handy free comic book has been created, tasked with teach anyone the basics of soldering.
The 7-page comic book does a grand job of explaining the art of soldering, with a step-by-step guide making it easy for beginners (and rubbish old hands like us) to get the job done.
The comic is released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike), so users are free to “teach with it, colour it, modify it, share it with your friends, translate it, and basically do whatever you like with it!”
The book is offered in multiple formats here. Good work fellas!
oops !
Unfortunately they get it wrong.
You should apply the solder to the wire/pad, NOT “under the tip of the iron”. It’s not about pouring molten solder onto a hopefully sufficiently hot target.
Though I’ll sometimes wet the bit with solder to improve its thermal contact with the wire/pad.
Or at least that’s how I was taught at college and have always done it since – both in electronics and plumbing.