rewiring with forethought

Thank you, I can not tell you how long it took me to lay that out and then wire it up. But that was done over a period of a month or more of on and off work. The wire alone took 4 hours one evening.

 

Solder can wick up the braided copper wire this makes the otherwise flexible braided wire into a stiff stick prone to breakage. So don't flood the joint with solder, just enough to make the joint.

• Strip wire ends, dip in alcohol
• Tin wire ends
• Put heat shrink tube on wire far from the joint (so it doesn't prematurely shrink). Can't count how many times I've forgotten the heatshrink and had to redo it.
• Dip tinned wire ends in flux
• Crimp tinned ends into bare metal connector
• Solder over the seam in barrel connector, solder will wick into the wire.
• Allow joint to cool, slide heatshrink over joint, shrink with hair drier. I don't use matches or torches because it's too easy to damage the insulation.