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First time soldering! Not the best job, but hey, atleast it works. Followed mark santa maria's and chrisfix's video on soldering. This was the first adapter, but I think I did better on the second adapter, which I didn't get a pic of.
What I had previously was a TRX plug, going into 4mm bullets, and from there was a 4mm to 5mm barrel bullet. Because of the 4mm to 5mm barrels, the bullets wouldn't stay in the battery. So I took the EC3 to 5mm bullet adapter that came with my new CNHL shortys, took the Traxxas plug off the old one, and put it on the new one. It would probably would made it easier if I actually soldered the wires off the traxxas plug (getting the gold plates out) and soldering them to the new adapter, but I had a tough time trying to remove the plates so I just decided to splice the wire, and make a joint there. Used heat shrink and a lighter to finish the job up.
Solder station: Weller 40W
Solder: Kester rosin core
This was all with 12 AWG wire. Pretty thick. Should of started practicing on something smaller like 16 or 14 gauge, but thats alright, practice makes perfect.
These adapters are for using 5mm stick packs in the slash and rusty, so no worry about it, I would only worry about the job if it was for the buggy. If they get bad in the future, might have my uncle resolder them up.
Well talking about soldering, talked about this before, but trying to prioritize all my connectors. And I might have to extend the buggies leads as I made them too short and they are pulling on the solder joint.
Yea i did loose alot of wire, so on the first one I had to splice it again, but on the second one I did a better job.
What I had previously was a TRX plug, going into 4mm bullets, and from there was a 4mm to 5mm barrel bullet. Because of the 4mm to 5mm barrels, the bullets wouldn't stay in the battery. So I took the EC3 to 5mm bullet adapter that came with my new CNHL shortys, took the Traxxas plug off the old one, and put it on the new one. It would probably would made it easier if I actually soldered the wires off the traxxas plug (getting the gold plates out) and soldering them to the new adapter, but I had a tough time trying to remove the plates so I just decided to splice the wire, and make a joint there. Used heat shrink and a lighter to finish the job up.
Solder station: Weller 40W
Solder: Kester rosin core
This was all with 12 AWG wire. Pretty thick. Should of started practicing on something smaller like 16 or 14 gauge, but thats alright, practice makes perfect.
These adapters are for using 5mm stick packs in the slash and rusty, so no worry about it, I would only worry about the job if it was for the buggy. If they get bad in the future, might have my uncle resolder them up.
Well talking about soldering, talked about this before, but trying to prioritize all my connectors. And I might have to extend the buggies leads as I made them too short and they are pulling on the solder joint.
Yea i did loose alot of wire, so on the first one I had to splice it again, but on the second one I did a better job.