Lead Free Tin/Copper Solder Wire with Flux

Great value starter soldering iron kit. Everything you need to start soldering in one handy pack, including a 30W mains powered soldering iron.

Contents:

1 x 30W Soldering iron.

1 x Safety stand.

1 x Desoldering pump.

Lead free solder.

Watch this video below for an explanation of some of the components in the kit (please note: not all items in the video are included in this kit, see contents list for exact contents).

The Art of Soldering for Jewellery Makers: Techniques &Projects

This learn to solder pack is the ideal low cost solution for teaching soldering in the classroom/after school club. The pack provides all of the parts and PCB's required for a class size of 25 and also includes a 9V battery for testing purposes. Each pack comprises; 25 x PCBs, 100 x 100 ohm resistors, 25 x LED's, and a 9V PP3 battery.

There is also a step by step guide to soldering, which covers; equipment, solder, tinning & cleaning, soldering in 8 steps, de-soldering in five steps, wire preparation, examples of good and bad solder joints, basic PCB repair, resistor information, LED information, full step by step build information for the kit, and how the learn to solder kit works. This guide covers everything that you might need to discuss with students and can form the basis of your lesson plan.

Using the kits and the step by step guide, each student will solder four resistors and one LED to their PCB before pressing it to the terminals of the 9V battery to check that their board works. Using the guides they will be able to examine their own work and troubleshoot problems. The battery pads on the PCBs have been shaped inline with the battery terminals on a PP3 battery making it straightforward to see which way around it should be placed on the battery.

Features:

Purpose built PCBs that can be tested, once built, with the supplied 9V PP3 battery.

Low cost classroom pack for 25 students.

Easy build kit.

Full teaching resources and step by step guides available for this kit below.

Contents:

100 x 100 ohm Resistors.

25 x Red 5mm Diffused LED - 275mCd.

25 x Learn To Solder PCBs.

1 x 9V Zinc Chloride PP3 Battery.

Dimensions:

Built Height: 11mm.

PCB Length: 31mm.

PCB Width: 21mm.

PCB Height: 1.5mm.

Requires:

Soldering Iron.

Solder.

Wire Cutters.

The solderless TT motor adapter board is probably the best way of adding a TT motor to a project. Hands up if you've ever partially melted a motor or destroyed a lug whilst trying to solder wires to one? /raises hand... Not anymore! Not only is it easy to fit, it will extend the working life of your motors, especially in an educational environment. Re-use the motors over and over again. You won't even need to remove the TT motor adapter board between builds.

To fit; bend the motors lugs out approx 45 degrees from flat, place the board against the motor lining up the motors holes with the holes on the PCB, screw the two together. You can now connect to the board to your project with crocodile leads and you are good to go! Alternatively, if you want to use jumper cables instead of crocodile clips; choose one of three connection holes that is right for your project and fit some pins headers to the board. You will need the soldering iron for this one, but soldering to the PCB is a much more appealing proposition than soldering to the lugs on the motors. All the fun of soldering without the smell of burning plastic!

If you combine these solderless boards with our motor driver board for the BBC microbit, also solderless, you can build yourself a working programmable buggy/robot without a soldering iron! Just add a chassis, such as a flat piece of wood, cardboard or perspex, sticky pad everything to it and job done! This activity could also easily be done completely safely with younger children in primary education.

Features:

Add motors to your project without using a soldering iron.

Simple to fit and use.

Makes your budget go further by allowing you to reuse motors time and time again.

Suitable to use with older primary children.

Connect to the board using crocodile clips.

Alternatively, you can fit pin headers to the board and use jumper cables (soldering required).