Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Yes, non stainless wires take solder well. However my experience has been that the folks finicky enough to solder are the same ones who use stainless wires only, at least for gear cables.
Indeed. I only ever use stainless.
Some years ago I read about soldering the tips. Went out and bought a nice solder ******, and some silver solder (never lead), and some flux, and wasted a couple of hours trying to solder my tips before realizing that it just wasn't going to happen.
I could have bought so many cables for what I spent on all that soldering gear. Complete waste of my money to buy it all.
