# Soldering & Electronics Bench There are 3 fully kitted out electronics test benches at CCI as well as a number of on-demand soldering kits that can be setup anywhere. # What is on the electronics bench?  There are a number of electronics benches available with soldering facilities as described above, as well as other test equiptment: - [Rigol MSO5072 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope](https://www.rigolna.com/products/digital-oscilloscopes/MSO5000/) - [Rigol DS1202Z-E Digital Oscilloscope](https://www.rigolna.com/products/digital-oscilloscopes/1000z/DS1202Z-E/) - [Rigol DM3058E Bench Multimeter](https://www.rigolna.com/products/digital-multimeters/dm3000/) - [Rigol DP831 Linear DC Power Supply](https://www.rigolna.com/products/dc-power-loads/dp800/) - [Rigol DP711 Linear DC Power Supply](https://www.rigolna.com/products/dc-power-loads/dp700/) - [EXTECH EX310 Hand-held Multimeter](http://www.extech.com/products/EX310) # What is on the soldering bench? There are a number of [Hakko FX-951 temprature controlled soldering stations](https://www.hakko.co.uk/fx-951-soldering-station.html) available, the soldering irons are only to be used for lead free soldering, CCI provides lead-free rosin-free solder. There is no cost to using the soldering irons at CCI, the tips, solder, wire, and other common consumables like LEDs, resistors, headers, etc... are provided within reason. # How to soldering properly For the beginner who just started physical computing, there is always an unavoidable challenge - "How to solder?" On this page, we will try to show you the basic knowledge of how to solder, what equipment we have, and what the general process you can do in CCI. If you wanna learn more details, Adafruite has a nice instruction [Adafruit Guide To Excellent Soldering](https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-guide-excellent-soldering)
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Third hand Grip your pieces while you soldering |
Soldering Iron Professional-style temperature-controlled iron |
Solder |
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Snip Trim leads after soldering / Pre-cut the plastic part before the desoldering |
Soldering Sucker Remove excess solder / Des-older a joint |
Solder Wick Clean excess solder / Soak up the molten solder |
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![]() | Desoldering gun Remove molten solder from a joint. |
PCB Guillotine Cut the PCB board |
It's better to draw a diagram before you start, which could easily figure out how much stripboard you need (Don't waste!) and you can cut the board down to the size by the PCB Guillotine.
For the stripboard and protoboard, you need a third hand to provide the board moving around while soldering.
Make Sure there is no short circuit on your board before you power it!