Anyone have FallingWater's guide to soldering leads to 18650 Batteries?

[ThinAirDesigns]

Numerous places on this forum I see recommendations and links to a guide of the risks, rewards and techniques of soldering leads to lithium 18650s in a pinch. These links are all dead.

Anyone know a valid link or have a copy saved?

Thanks
JB (very experienced with soldering)

 

[ThinAirDesigns]

Ok -- going to answer my own question. I dug around on his site and found he apparently migrated to WordPress and this changed all the addresses to the old archives.

Here is the new link to the guide.

JB

 

[Overclocker]

here's me soldering to an 18650. it's not recommended to solder but this is the best method so far, less than 1 second of contact w/ the soldering iron:



these days i spot weld. here i took a slo-mo video