Join Copper Shielding with Something Other than Solder?

[selowitch]

Is it possible to connect pieces of shielding in the body cavity using some kind of electric or electronic connector instead of solder?

[Achtane]

Staple them together and crimp the legs?

[selowitch]

I was thinking perhaps something typically used for another purpose but which is easier than solder to attach neatly. Of course, I don't know what that would be.

[steve_rolfeca]

Can't think of anything else that would be as effective, or as unobtrusive. Why don't you want to solder?

[Brick Top]

Can't you get the copper shielding in the form of a tape...so it just sticks in there.

I have never done it....so excuse my answer if I'm way off.

[walterw]

the stew-mac copper shielding tape has a conductive adhesive, and will likely work without soldering.

soldering is still better though, and is easier than any other way of doing it.

[Hellbastard]

I've used Stew-Mac's coper tape. The adhesive is conductive so you don't need to solder. Some people like to add solder to the points where the tape overlaps but I don't know what benefits it brings to do so.

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by Hellbastard

I've used Stew-Mac's coper tape. The adhesive is conductive so you don't need to solder. Some people like to add solder to the points where the tape overlaps but I don't know what benefits it brings to do so.

I have the StewMac stuff in the three different sizes. I guess if you test the various segments for continuity and they check out, then you really don't need solder.

Should the pieces overlap just a little to increase the likelihood of good conductance from one piece of foil to the other?

(I'm a noob at this if you couldn't already tell. )

[Craig_S]

Originally Posted by selowitch

Should the pieces overlap just a little to increase the likelihood of good conductance from one piece of foil to the other?

absolutely

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by Craig_S

absolutely

Well, that's good. Maybe merely by slightly overlapping the segments of StewMac tape with the conductive adhestive, I will get good continuity and won't need to bother with solder.

[dmusic148]

Originally Posted by selowitch

Well, that's good. Maybe merely by slightly overlapping the segments of StewMac tape with the conductive adhestive, I will get good continuity and won't need to bother with solder.

That will be just fine. I've done this many times with excellent results.

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by dmusic148

That will be just fine. I've done this many times with excellent results.

Cool! I'm going to try to follow Chunger's approach to copper foil as described beginning here.

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[96tbird]

I did one bass with aluminum foil duct tape. Since it's nearly impossible to solder aluminum, I made jumper tape by placing a small rectangular piece on a larger rectangular piece, sticky to sticky and laid it over the joints to complete the circuit; the large piece overlapped the small on all sides. So there is a home brewed solution. Copper will oxidize so it's not a good solution for that. The Stewmac conductive adhesive works good, but who knows if the adhesive conductivity will degrade? Copper looks cool, but aluminum works just as well.