Newbie help with Wiring on Tele

Hi everybody,

Newly registered here, but I've been browsing it for some months now, cannot find an answer here so thought maybe some of you experienced with wiring can help.

I have a standard tele wiring, 3 way, 250k pots.

I'm looking to put a Seymour Duncan STK-2Tb in the bridge, standard fender in the neck.

Problem here is I'm a novice in wiring, On Seymour Duncan website its diagram to wire this up recommended solder on the bottom pot and reverse wires if using a fender in the neck.

What's the best soldering iron to achieve this? And what's the best way to solder a pot?

Any help is much appreciated.

Here is the diagram I work from.
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=tele_1hum_1sing

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I don't have any problem with a 30 watt iron (may be 40w - not sure). The best way to get the wires to stick to the pots is to rough up the back of the pot with sandpaper, heat the back of the pot until solder melts and adheres to it and make a small puddle. Tin the wire (heat the stripped end and melt solder into the wire), place the wire on the puddle of solder and melt it again with the iron. Remove the iron and hold the wire in place until the solder hardens. Bada-bing bada-boom. Wire connected to back of pot. Just follow the instructions from SD - should work. Good luck & welcome to the forum.

My little cheap Weller WLC100--orange--40 Watts works well for everything I want to do. For soldering bigger items, I put in a chisel tip, for fine work I put in the pointed tip.

Use a rosin-core 60/40 solder. The stuff RAdio Shack sells works fine. As nosmo said, make sure everything is clean before you try to solder.

Heat the parts, and let the hot parts melt the solder. Get a dab of molten solder on the iron's tip to better transfer heat to the parts, but then press the solder wire into the parts to melt and flow it in. After a little practice, you'll be an expert.

This comes up a lot. I have a small soldering pencil with a pointed tip. Usually everything is OK except the back of pots. I could never get it to melt nicely like you see on factory pots. It would always look like some meteorite. Finally I got a weller soldering gun with the chisel tip and it really transfers the heat. I use the pencil on all the wires and the weller on the back of the pot.

Thanks guys! Had some success using your input. Still experimenting with this but I will be an expert soon!

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