[coinmaster]

Hi. I'm purchasing type 6 copper litz for headphone and interconnect cable. I notice that toxic cables has the mundorf silver gold solder on their litz cables but I hear you have to use a soldering pot to solder litz wire, which doesn't use normal solder.
I don't know if I want to be using tin and other poor conductors in my solder, kinda defeats the purpose if your really nice cable is connected by junk.

 

[PETEREK]

When I solder litz I just have to crank the heat up on my soldering iron to about 450 Celcius (pretty damn hot). I use silver solder and don't have any issues otherwise.

 

[Fernando Pancho]

  When I solder litz I just have to crank the heat up on my soldering iron to about 450 Celcius (pretty damn hot). I use silver solder and don't have any issues otherwise.

How long do you apply heat to the wires with the soldering iron? And how do you clean the wires so that the solder holds properly? I am trying  to repair some headphones but I am having problems soldering those headphone wires.

 

[PETEREK]

 
How long do you apply heat to the wires with the soldering iron? And how do you clean the wires so that the solder holds properly? I am trying  to repair some headphones but I am having problems soldering those headphone wires.

I don't know what you mean by "clean". You should only have to apply the soldering iron to the wires for few seconds. 

 

[Arty McGhee]

i did one of my grados with silk wrapped litz
kinda neat stuff
the trick is every connector is laquered
on the thin stuff (i used 175/40 to approximate 24 awg)
for the solder to stick with a quick couple seconds
you gotta burn it off with heat like turn the heat up on the iron
also passing it through a bead of melted solder works to tin it
 
i made some rca interconnects with some thicker stuff
had to sand it with sandpaper to get it to stick

 

[Arty McGhee]

and tin is what solder is made of
silver solder is like 3% silver
its kester 60/40 for me

 

[David Aldrich]

I've been using 63/37 for the last year and a half and I'm not missing the 60/40 much.

 

[Fernando Pancho]

  i made some rca interconnects with some thicker stuff
had to sand it with sandpaper to get it to stick

Thank you for mentioning sand paper. I first used a razor blade but I kept cutting the wires. I then tried very fine sand paper and a bit of spirit to clean the wires. The repair I was doing to a headphone is now OK.

 

[HiGHFLYiN9]

Glad the sandpaper worked. I do what other members here do, turn up the iron and burn off the enamel... unless it's thicker gauge like speaker wire, then I use a solder pot. You can get all sorts of different high quality solder for solder pots, not just tin.