Perfboard soldering questions

[ericohman]

Me and a friend will be building our first pedal soon and I just tried to solder two resistor legs together. I tried a lot of different (hooking them together) methods but none of them seemed good enough to make me feel confident.

Does anyone here have any tip on how to solder resistor legs together, wire to a resistor leg, transistor mounts etc?

Also, say I have a 100k resistor and after that a .01 capacitor and after that a transistor socket (cap going to base).
How would you do that. Imagine they are placed close to each other.
Links and tips are much appreciated.

EDIT: Found a great article:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/beginner/build/npnboostbuild.htm

[frequencycentral]

That tutorial you linked to is pretty much exactly how I do it, just follow the instructions.

[cab42]

I can only recommend building the NPN-booster. Its a great tutorial, and the booster is also great. There's absolutely nothing "beginner" about the sound.

Regards

Carsten

[oldschoolanalog]

...tips are much appreciated.

Make sure your component leads are clean.
Clean is good.

[oldrocker]

Yes that is the way to perf although my suggestion is any lead that goes through a pad hole should be soldered to that pad.  This makes sure the component is secured to the board.  Even in the link example it shows that one lead isn't soldered but as you scroll down you'll see at the end of the project it was soldered down.  It's not a rule but that's the way I always do it.

[petemoore]

  Put the resistor in with one long/one short leg, the resistor body length lead toward the outside of the board or not.
  Twist the stranded wire, put a sharp turn around in to the de-insulated portion, hook that on your resistor lead [either keep slight pressure on it or make the de-insulated portion long enough so that you can twist the loop around the lead.
  The solder should take when the tinned iron is put across the stranded wire...helps neaten up the bottoms of my boards, to tell where this wire went later, to get a wire in where there is no available pad, pretty easy to not disturb the already soldered pad/lead under the board. Haven't pulled a pad yet doing it this way, makes a decent audio injector or probe or alligator clip point, aids my debuggin' skills too.