Soldering Iron/Glue

HackerXjr · Post by **HackerXjr** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:20 pm

I would like to know if I can use glue instead of a soldering iron. I want to basically connect wires and batteries and a switch to light a bulb and I would like to stick the wires on the bulb so I dont have to honld it. Is it okay to use glue/ or super glue insted? If it is can it also be used when making a portable? or anything that deals with wire soldering and so on

btw isnt soldering bassicaly to get a wire into a hole of a chip? or anything?

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:48 pm

You could glue a wire in place, but the connection would not be as good as if you had soldered it.

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:51 pm

G-Force, your avatar makes me cry, it makes god cry.

OK, back on topic, well, glue would work, but many problems follow. The connection could be loose and traces might share frying the whole thing, and glue itself is too much of a conductor, signal won't go proplerly...nevertheless I strongly advise using an iron, it'll pay off, believe me.

I think soundwave may know what I'm talking about?

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:56 pm

in theory, you could, but the benefits (if any) outway the problems of using glue by far. when using glue, you cannot have any glue between wire and point, and they have to be touching. If you manage to get that far, it will be even more of a pain in the butt to keep them together for very long. Soldering, on the other hand, is much more secure and not as picky Just make sure it's pretty sturdy, which isn't very hard, and make sure the solder doesn't touch any points around the one you are soldering to when you are done.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:02 pm

It doesn't work very well at all, I know as I have tried it numerous times.
The glue will inevitably get between wire and what ever it needs to connect to.

On the other hand hot glue is great for preserving fragile connections after you've soldered them.

snes · Post by **snes** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:04 pm

dont use glue. super glue doesnt conduct electricity and it will probably melt ;p

Post by **Triton** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:54 pm

someone needs to make a conductive glue

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:57 pm

Thermal epoxy might work for electronics as long as it has metal in it. I know that the "Insert name here" Silver stuff is conductive. But it's quite expensive, and solder is much better anyways.