| These will be your tools. You need to know how to use
them well. Practice on junk stuff first to get a feel for it. I DON'T suggest learning how to solder with a Butane Pen Soldering iron like I have here. Get a good Soldering Iron and life will be much easier. My suggestion if you think you will be doing more than just a bit here and there is a Weller WES-50. I got mine for about $120 and its an awsome soldering station. |
 Heat Shrink Tubing, Lighter, Wire, 60/40 resin
core solder, Soldering Iron, Connectors, Snaps, Wire Cutters/Strippers, Resin Flux.. |
| Ok Here you see me applying Fluxing resin. This is used to make sure the solder flow into the wires and where we want it to. Just a dab on the wires will do. |  |
| Here I have taken some solder on to my hot soldering iron and applied it to the wire with the resin on it. The solder will flow into the wire strands. This make jointing connections a ton easier down the road and you don't have to do the lame stuff I have seen like twisting wire together, make balls of solder all over the joins, I mean really when you open up a warp are you expecting to see some alien lifeform made from solder ? |  |
| Now for jointing wires. At the point you should have
all your wires prepped and tinned. You should have the proper heat shrink tubing for your
wires and have it placed over the wires to one end to cover the new joins. Try to keep
them far from heat until your done. NOW : For the Emag mod here you will notice that I have a black wire and a red wire. This is the + red wire from the Emag and the - Black wire from the 9v Snap. The reason you are crossing wires is so that when you plug the Emag power into the Revy you have the power correct like a 9v Battery should be. |
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| Here is a normal connector and battery. See how
the connectors change from the battery to the Snap. That is why when you are making looms with 9v snaps taking the place of the batteries you MUST switch up your wire colors or you will roast something. |
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| Here is an example of what would happen if you wired it
all up keeping your colors correct. Say bye bye to you magic blue smoke. The connectors on the right show this problem. So when you solder the snap to the wire leads to the battery you need to cross up the colors. Red from battery to black on the snap and black from Emag to red on the snap. |
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| Now that you have the joints done you need to cover
them with the heat shrink. You did remember to put some over the wires before you soldered them together right ? Something I left out here, is that with all the extra wire you might want to use a longer piece of tubing so that once you are done with the joins and their heat shrink, you can cover the 2 wires and neaten things up a bit with some more heat shrink. Same basic idea we just used you just have to play with the wires a bit to get enough tubing over them. |
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