10 MISTAKES Beginners Make When Soldering For The First Time (Beginner's Guide) | GOT2LEARN

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  @theomaksor851 · 5 years ago

  Better change the title : Leave 'beginner's out. I thought I was not a beginner at retirement age. You proved me wrong ;-) THANKS !!

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• IM

  @im1who84u · 5 years ago

  I am in my sixties now.<br><br>When I was younger than ten years old I remember my dad letting me help him fix things around the house.<br><br>He was a &quot;week-end&quot; warrior, but pretty good at it.<br>He did carpentry, plumbing, electrical, concrete, painting....<br><br>For plumbing he would let me clean the copper fittings. We used steel wool for the outside and a brush like the one in this video for the inside. He did instruct me not to touch the parts I cleaned as to not get the oil from my skin on them.<br><br>He would let me watch as he assembled the parts and then soldering them together, explaining what he was doing and why. I remember him telling me to let the pipe melt the solder.<br><br>My dad passed away when I was twelve... but, as a teen-ager I was able to continue to &quot;fix&quot; things around the house for my mom. Much to my guy friends amazement.<br><br>I did plumbing on my own with confidence, replaced a gas water heater, ran electrical wires and installed sockets, lights, and switches where non had existed before, carpentry work, laid ceramic tiles, did drywall.... and all without going to any school to learn these trades. I was a self taught &quot;weekend warrior&quot;.<br><br>As a side note here. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I bought my first hand held, power operated, circular saw. It was so much easier and the end product was so much more professional looking then cutting the wood with a hand saw. I even invited my friends over and demonstrated it by just cutting of a slice of a 2 x 4. They all looked on in amazement and picked up and closely examined the cut piece.<br><br>Since then I&apos;ve purchased a 12&quot; miter saw and 10&quot; table saw and I can&apos;t remember the last time I used a hand saw. I still keep them around but they&apos;ve all rusted over time. Some of those same saws are the same ones my father used. They my even still have some of his &quot;hand oil&quot; or finger prints on them somewhere.

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  @-krakk3rjack365 · 5 years ago

  Reminds me of my appy days as an HVAC tech. My boss drilled every point you made into our minds daily for months. It&apos;s all instinctive now, made us great installers.

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• KE

  @kevindouglas2060 · 5 years ago

  What I like about your video is you concentrate on cleaning the copper. &nbsp;I like the abrasive rolls made for plumbing but the other stuff works too. &nbsp;At one time I thought I needed &nbsp;to be very careful or it would &nbsp;leak. Then I experimented with some old fittings I got at a garage sale. &nbsp;I found that it was easy to make an ugly joint but it was almost impossible to make a leaky joint if everything was clean. If you clean the pipe and &nbsp;fittings use flux and get the pipe hot enough to melt the solder it won&apos;t leak. It seems to work even if you don&apos;t direct the flame in the right place or dump way too much solder in the joint. I tried every wrong way I could think of. I even just held the torch on one side until the back heated up. It looked terrible but didn&apos;t leak. In short get the copper clean use flux and it will probably work no matter how inexperienced you are. Still if it&apos;s for a real job you should be careful to make it look presentable.

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• TE

  @tectorama · 5 years ago

  Two other things. Don&apos;t get the fitting so hot, that the solder boils out.<br>Don&apos;t put water on joint to cool it down too quickly, as the solder will<br>contract and cause a leak.

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• DO

  @docbaby2893 · 5 years ago

  What was not mentioned was that you cannot have an &quot;air locked&quot; area in your soldering, make sure air pressure can escape somewhere in the pipeline you are soldering as trapped heated air will want to push your wet solder out of the joint while your soldering &nbsp;if it has no where else to go

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• RC

  @RCdiy · 5 years ago

  Love your videos especially the cut away graphics. I’ve made every one of these mistakes at least one. GLOVES. Wear gloves. At some point you will grab a hot part. I’m referring to us ‘handy men’. Also think ahead to where you will place a torch that is still lit. When you are in an awkward position is not the time to figure it out.

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• IN

  @InertiaCreeps · 5 years ago

  Wow! I don’t recall ever seeing a DIY video that I actually enjoyed watching from an entertainment perspective. Very well done good sir.

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• MA

  @markproulx1472 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Another excellent video. &nbsp;I appreciate that you get right down to business, stay on point, and don’t add any “cutesy” stuff or stupid music.

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• BL

  @bluedrgn6 · 1 year ago

  glad you mentioned not to touch parts to be soldered, seen a lot of tutorials on soldering but no one has mentioned not touching parts, marvelous

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• CR

  @cristianmunoz2480 · 5 years ago

  Lmao I remember back when I first started my plumbing career as an apprentice I was looking up plumbing videos on how to learn different stuff. I remember when I first subscribed and you had like 1k subscribers. Now it&apos;s been 4 years and I&apos;m a Journeyman now and your channel has blown up.

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• GE

  @Geoffs_ya_runkle · 5 years ago

  I click like on your videos as soon as they start because I know I will always learn something. &nbsp;Thanks and keep them coming!

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