soldering technique question

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When soldering insulated wires, to large heat absorbing posts and lugs, I ran into the problem of PVC, and some other jacket materials, melting, shrinking and pulling back.

Lately I've been heavily tinning large-mass connectors, like Cardas binding posts, and tinning the wires. The joint can then be made pretty quickly and jacket melt back is very minimal.

When soldering the tinned wire to the tinned binding post, I hold the post in a small vise and the wire in a third hand clip. I position the tinned wire such that it is pushing down against the tinning on the post.

I hold the soldering tip against both the tinned wire and tinning on the post. When the solder melts the wire sinks into the tinning on the post, such that it probably rests against the post, and I add a tad more rosin filled solder. So far the joints end up very shiny and work well. I'm using 6347 leaded solder. Is this a bad practice?

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Topic - soldering technique question - henryrancourt@att.net 10:10:33 09/07/16 (12)

RE: soldering technique question - Duster 16:25:52 09/07/16 (1)

RE: soldering technique question - henryrancourt@att.net 19:14:04 09/07/16 (0)

RE: soldering technique question - Awe-d-o-file 15:32:46 09/07/16 (4)

RE: soldering technique question - henryrancourt@att.net 19:27:07 09/07/16 (3)

RE: soldering technique question - Awe-d-o-file 05:22:32 09/10/16 (0)

RE: soldering technique question - Awe-d-o-file 05:22:21 09/10/16 (1)

RE: soldering technique question - henryrancourt@att.net 08:47:51 09/10/16 (0)

RE: soldering technique question - bcowen 15:29:02 09/07/16 (2)

RE: soldering technique question +1 - jad 21:03:28 09/07/16 (0)

+1 - Uncle Mike 15:52:56 09/07/16 (0)

RE: soldering technique question - JKT 11:13:34 09/07/16 (1)

RE: soldering technique question - henryrancourt@att.net 11:22:06 09/07/16 (0)

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