I'm dizzy from the soldering fumes
A little thing I do when I solder Deans plugs. Although I am very careful and plan ahead, on occasion, I have to keep the soldering iron tip longer than I should on the Deans' metal tab making the plastic start to melt and the tab moves and becomes crooked. This results in a bad connection or no connection at all. You know, you suddenly have a little twitch and the iron tip moves with the wire and you try to reposition it, it only takes a couple seconds but that is enough to over heat the plug's metal tab.
Some say to connect a male plug into the female plug you want to solder wires to and vice versa. That extra plug absorbs a lot of the heat and often makes for a poor soldering job, cold solder.
So here's my trick, I stuff tiny pieces of hard wood in the female plug I want to work on. Those pieces of wood have been sanded down carefully so that they fit snug but not tight. The wood does not absorb heat and it holds the plug's metal tab in place in case something happens and the plastic starts to melt. For a male plug, I took a scrap female plug and yanked the metal tabs out oh it and replaced them with the wood pieces. This holds the metal tabs of a male plug in place in case the plastic starts to melt. Easy and effective, it made the job much easier.
