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Oh, sorry!  Tinning refers to addind solder to the wire after 
stripping.  Touch the wire with your soldering iron and add a bit of 
no-clean.  Obviously, it changes the color from copper to 'tin'...

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" <noise@A...> 
wrote:
> Sorry, should have been more clear-- what exactly IS tinning?  And 
how does one do it?  (All Paul's module wires come pre-tinned, so I 
haven't had to do it myself yet...)
> 
> --PBr
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Marsh [mailto:mmarsh@w...]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 11:49 AM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [motm] Re: wire stripping techniques...
> 
> 
> I always tin.  It makes it much easier to stick the (multi-
stranded) 
> wire thought the pad without a teeny little stray shorting 
something 
> out.  And it makes it easier to solder in place.  Good advice: 
always 
> tin!
> 
> 
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)" 
<noise@A...> 
> wrote:
> > OK, so now that we have wire stripping covered, what about 
> tinning?  What exactly is that all about?