4-pin molex cables won't take solder?

MikeHunt79 · 19 Jul 2009 at 13:37

I bought some brand new 4-pin molex to sata power adaptors...

I now need to solder the cables but the cables won't take the solder, why is this?

Kennysevenfold · 19 Jul 2009 at 13:43

Why do you need to solder them exactaly.?

ns400r · 19 Jul 2009 at 14:41

Sand or file off the silver, (tin), coating down to the base copper and try again.

rodders · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:51

Bakers fluid helps too.

MikeHunt79 · 19 Jul 2009 at 18:28

Kennysevenfold said:
Why do you need to solder them exactaly.?

I'm reducing clutter in my case, and shortening cables...

ns400r said:
Sand or file off the silver, (tin), coating down to the base copper and try again.

I'll give this a go, this does seem very strange, I've never come across molex cables you could not solder before... It's almost as if the cable is made from steel?

rodders said:
Bakers fluid helps too.

I'm already using flux, I'll try some of this if I can find it...