ZSamuels28
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Uhmmm... not true. Maybe if you are not tinning before you solder, you could get a good mechanical connection between the two conductive surfaces. Until you solder the joint that is. When soldering the joint it would take more pressure than you can provide with the tip of your soldering iron to keep that mechanical connection. You actually want that solder to flow and fill all of the gaps between the two conductive surfaces, many of which a too small for you to see without magnification. If it doesn't flow properly to fill those gaps it is what's known as a "cold solder" joint which does not conduct electricity very well. If you want that perfect mechanical connection, that would be welding, which produces way too much residual heat for our connectors to survive.
You mean I can't weld my solder to my adapters!? Darn... I think I'm going to get some Cardas Quad Solder as it is said to be very high quality stuff