Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-08 | Page 31 | Solder Wires onto Terminals

SOlDER WIRES V ONTO TERMINALS When hen a wire carrying electric current current cur ur rent is 18 to be attached to a terminal or orto orto orto to another piece of 01 wire the common common practice Is is to make the c connection wrap It with tire tape and call it a u. I Job The serves vcr very well until corrosion of oC the parts sets In In when a 1 resistance to passage of ot the Is is set up with increasingly detrimental results As ts a matter of 0 fact all connections of this kind should be soldered as soon as os tile they are made I In soldering er g these e parts care Sl should li be to keep et t the solder irom flowing on any part of the wire ex except except except ex- ex the terminal as the heat tends to tomake tomake tomako make mako the wire brittle and likely to break In doing the work hold the tinned surface of ot the soldering I iron on close ose to the place where the juncture is to be bo made Hold the Iron steadily In the one place so that the solder flows freol freely on the connection and after attEr completing the Job test with the battery batter to see that the current flows Vs properly As 8 a flux for this sort of or work ow 0 dered resin dissolved In grain alcohol to a trin syrup should be used rather than the ordinary acid flux which tends to destroy the insulation i besides being a It conductor of or electricity I and likely to cause shorts I