HOW TO SOLDER! (Beginner's Guide)

This is the best beginner tutorial on soldering I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe it’s not the first result that appears in KRplus’s search.

As a beginner myself, I found this video incredibly informative and I must say, this video is a "Must Watch" for every Beginner in Soldering.

I just recently joined the "Guys with No Girlfriend" club. It's nice to be here fellas! Let's get soldering

I took an electronics class at my local community college 20 years ago and learned how to solder. Our final project was a PCB that turned out to be a volt meter. Still use that volt meter I built to this day.

hands down the best soldering tutorial i've seen..

Such a neat and professional teacher
I need such a teacher in my life
Very patient and understanding ❤❤

Growing up I think I had a soldering iron in my hand before a binky. Soldering is life. And I can say this is a wonderful video on life.

Thank you, every other video really doesn't explain some the points you made. I actually learned something. 😮

Most concise video I ever found for soldering! Thank you very much. I liked the way of jumping into the main topic without wasting any time, it was engaging conversation and learning💖💖

I needed to know why my soldering was so poor. What you showed about heating the components, NO ONE I watched showed that in their tutorials - I sat down and spent 2 hours or so watching various soldering tutorial videos yesterday and did not see that (solder) nugget of advice. Thanks

Damn man! This might just be the most concise yet extremely informative video on soldering!! What's better is the way you people conveyed the information! I'm pretty sure your channel is going to grow leaps and bounds... Keep it up guys!

Beautiful camera angles to show exactly how the iron, solder, and wick work. Loved the video!

excellent teacher, and the method of having someone inexperience do it and correcting the procedure and passing more info. Wonderful.

Honestly the best beginner's tutorial for soldering. Subscribed instantly!

The best video about soldering. Thanks!!!

As a middle schooler this was really helpful for my project

I too am not a fan of long intros. Started strong and maintained it for a great video. Thanks!

I soldered a hundred times before but I still learned a lot, great video, very easy and fun to watch. Thanks!

Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to creating new projects with these tutorials. Keep up the great work you 2!

Such a great video! The b-roll and close-ups were super helpful. Awesome job guys!

Great tutorial, no waffle, and glad to have witnessed the beginning of the journey for Brandon. Thanks, guys.

I'll be starting my first soldering projects soon and this video seriously made me more confident to go into it! Thank you.

Very good, I've just bought my first iron and I'm about to change the left switch with a right one taken from an older mouse. This vid is just what I needed.

This makes so much sense! this tutorial is amazing! I've been struggling to understand the soldering process for years, and it's finally starting to click! thank you!

I did Learn, I learned about the Soldering Iron, Solder it's self and whatever you are fixing/ Working on. This was very helpful and thank you.

I already know some basic soldering, adding this to improve my knowledge on soldering. Thanks for info, I really meant it

The best tutorial on soldering I've ever seen in years! Really well done, with nice camera work with macro lenses for the close ups! Thanks guys you rocks!

Excellent video! I have many years of experience doing what I’d call basic soldering and there are still many tips and tricks I’ve learned from this! 🤘🏻

Thanks for this video, seriously. I've been doing some basic mods on old Game Boys but have been reliant on stuff you can just drop in and out, meaning I can't do a lot of cool stuff because it involved soldering. This has given me the confidence to go ahead and look at getting my own basic soldering set up. I won't necssarily be doing fancy stuff like populating entire PCB's, but I need to be able to solder wires to junctions to power them and change old coin batteries in game cartridges that have died.

This is the best video I have ever seen on Soldering !! Just so wonderful and well Explained !!!! Kudos to you guys 🎉

Thank you so much!!! I tried and failed for months, but I was finally able to solder successfully after watching this video. 🙏🙏🙏

This is the type of video that stays in my watchlater its SO HELPFUL!

I just started learning soldering and desoldering recently and I got most of the tools like the iron, solder, ipa, just need flux then I'll start practicing on some old circuit boards I have lying around. You teach well and this video is both awesome and inspiring, thanks! :)

Best tutorial I've found so far!! Thank you

There can never be too many how-to-solder videos online.

Literally the best video on soldering

ur a legend bro I was able to get my soldering for my class down first try after watching this and wasn't getting it before,,, keep up the good work 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

THANKS FOR THE REFRESHER COURSE. I GO FOR A JOB INTERVIEW TOMORROW & I DID FORGET ABOUT THE HEAT SHRINK. 😊

I was struggling with soldering until I saw this video ! The way Chad explained it was so perfect and seeing Brandon doing the soldering first time in the video gave me confidence 😅. I was struggling to solder headers to a i2s DAC until I saw this video !
The key for me was to understand that
- Soldering iron needs to be at a higher temp than solder’s melting point and
- Using Soldering Iron to touch the solder pad hole on pcb along with header for 2-3 seconds before bringing the solder !
Just the perfect and First Video to watch for anyone trying to learn how to Solder ! You guys made my day and I did my first ever perfect solder and now listening to awesome music on 3£ i2s DAC connect to my 17£ Raspberry Pi !
Awesome and Kudos Again !

I loved this how-to, as a hobbyist, this has helped me. Subscribed.

This was a very well explained soldering video. Well done guys

Great Video. I’ve been soldering for a while but still learned some tips from this content.!!

this is just perfect on the methodology. I just started getting into it.
Only thing I would say is to just have a full list of what a person needs to have in order to be able to do everything you showed.
I want to learn so I can do Retro Console mods and take care of electronics / Motherboards.

Excellent video! I learned a lot. Thank you!

Funny and enjoyable tutorial, i like the way you two teaching, keep moving

I've watched a metric fuckton of soldering tutorials here on KRplus.
_FYI_
This video is the *best soldering tutorial* and that's the bottom line, Stone Cold etc.
Bravo💡

great tutorial you showed what the flux does and what the copper wire does and typical settings for soldering, these should be mentioned everywhere how we suppose to know all those details, thank you!

I never thought of it before,but now I'm really interested ❤️

Wauw! I needed to replace the capacitors of some retro hardware but didn't feel I was doing very well though unsure what exactly I did wrong. This video really nailed it for me and I can't wait to give this a try! 👍🏻👍🏻

A tip: if you cut the leg that close to the joint after soldering, make sure to reheat the joint in case you damaged it while cutting. Might not be a problem now but might become one in a while.

Very informative! Tomorrow we're going to solder some electronics in class - so wish me luck!

I’m glad I stumbled upon this video. I need to solder my broken in-ear monitors.

You just gave me the confidence to start my project

I've been watching a bunch of these & this one was my favorite so far, good job!

Great. This will be my goto for teaching the kids. My only suggestion would be to match the tip size to the gauge of wire or mass of the 2 parts you are trying to solder together, especially using the newer "no lead" solder. I find you need a much bigger tip to solder those big LIPO power wires to the FCs. Otherwise the big wires just suck the heat out of the smaller tips too quick. And then there's those super tiny pads on the tiny whoop FCs...gotta use a tiny pointed tip for those or the solder just goes everywhere. Also for the tiny stuff, I use a stiff piece of wire positioned over the board to rest the iron on just behind the tip so you have more stability to keep the point on the right spot. With the boards getting smaller and smaller every year, my latest soldering tool project has been to make a board holder on a 3D printed stepper motor controlled positioning stage with a tiny robotic arm soldering iron. Got the positioning stage built and working but still trying to make a good tiny soldering iron with a heat resistant FPV macro cam for us old people who can't see those tiny pads anymore.

I did my soldering for my university project... wasn't perfect but it was ok...Thanks for your video!

Perfect tutorial, thanks for sharing the knowledge.

Really good to learn so many good ways to do soldering. Thanks for that.

WOW one of the best learning videos i have ever watched. thanks!!

Thanks for this. Recent subscriber. I appreciate the teaching style in lots of your videos, and this is a useful introduction.
I'd love to see another version with more failure / problem-solving as an alternative teaching strategy, where a student gets to experience "what if it's not working?" with a tutor guiding them through what variables in the process they can change.
From trying to learn soldering through reading and watching videos, I get the impression that it's somewhere between a skill and an art, such that someone with lots of experience of successful soldering finds it difficult (often without realising) to describe or teach what is essentially a matter of muscle memory and "feel". Like an olympian trying to explain to a non-athlete the nuances they've embodied after years of practise. This seems to breed frustration between both the expert and the amateur, because for those who already have the knack, the process and feel seems very obvious. Whereas those (like me) who struggle to get the most basic aspect of soldering to work, and reach out for help, immediately run into either condescension, dismissal, or, more often, a barrage of conflicting tug-of-war arguments over what the problem / solution might be (e.g. wrong solder, wrong flux, wrong wick, wrong tip, too hot, too cold, too long, too short, etc.).
I think it's tougher than many people realise to teach something that has a "knack" to it.
Thanks, HMM!

Incredible man I learn many things by this video 😊 Appreciate that

my dudes an amazing intro video i was afraid of soldering but wanted light n my 3d printers but after this it so dam easy thank you so much for making such an easy to follow video that also made me not feel like an idiot and by going step by step showing what the process is 😊

Awesome video !

great tutorial much appreciated!! just started soldering and found this video very helpfull.

Great stuff. Have you tried the style of tip that’s round with a single slash cut? I think it’s called a “single round”…
It’s my favorite. You can use the flat side to get the advantages of chisel too, or flip it 180 and use the sharp edge to get more precision like a conical tip

very nice video, ive never soldered before but i feel more comfortable doing it my first time because of watching this video

Replacing a battery in my keyboard and I have to use a soldering iron. I was nervous but you made it very simple. Thanks!

Thanks for the video, I was able to solder my audio technica headset, replacing the rechargable battery. Less e-waste! I can keep my headset for many more years.

Just learned i have been soldering wrong and I’m glad I found this video

The perfect soldering tutorial does not exi-
Amazing video! Chad, you completely nailed every important point. When we're learning, it's easy to think solder is like hot glue... and when our circuit doesn't work, we can't figure out why because bad solder joints can be super hard to spot. If you follow Chad's tutorial though, you'll never have a bad solder joint ruin your project.

This is why KRplus is so great, thanks guys!

Great vid. I didn't know about the wicking.

Wow, i have watch more than 7 videos but this is the best tutorial.

Awesome video. I learned a lot. One thing that I noticed that isn't pointed out; tinning the tip of the solder acts like an attraction to the new solder, which is why you hold the soldering iron on the opposite side of the part you want to solder.
If only I saw this video yesterday, my Arduino would look much nicer.

Good teacher, good student. Solid vid

Best soldering tutorial on KRplus

Really good video. I thought that was how to do but I honestly had no clue. I will be working on a soldering project sometime in the next few weeks

I just want to hang out with these guys! Such great energy!

Great video, I've been soldering for a long while now but i still leaned a thing or two. Thanks :-)

Great video! Love the animations - really drives home the idea!

Life saver! ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏

4:28 is what I was having problems with! Thank you! Lol

Thanks guys. Such a great tutorial. 👍🏽

Insanely helpful, thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! I have a girl at my school who’s headphones weren’t working, and I’m good with fixing things so I asked if I could try to fix it and I checked it and there was no audio port connected to it! It had one but it somehow disconnected,so this video will help a ton, I haven’t returned it for a long time but I have no intent of keeping it, that would just be rude.

I have missed seeing you Chad, glad this popped up on feed.

Great video as i am learning the process.

very good teaching method. I really enjoyed it

Best soldering video I saw on KRplus

thankyou Brad n Chad, awesome video 🎉 very helpful thankyou

18:56 Great tip there.
I think this is the most common mistake beginner like me is making.

this was amazing I learning alot from this video thank you from egypt

great job folks

It’s really useful! Thanks for detailed information and tips

Great video! Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the detailed video!

Awesome guys i really want to get into this vid was on point

Got exactly what I came for. God damn what a good explanation.

This is such an amazing content, i learned a lot. thanks guys

Good easy to follow tutorial! Just noticed the PCB kit for sale on the site as well