How To Fix A Soldering Tip
Weve all been there.
How to fix a soldering tip. The solder melts and should stick at the tip. Heat up the pad on the bottom first and foremost by having most of the soldering tip on the pad. Steps for Repairing soldering iron not heating.
Using a fine tip on my iron I again used a 700 degree tip dabbed the area with liquid flux and soldered the wire to the lead and exposed trace. The best way to restore the tip is by re-tinning. Additional Ways of Restoring the Tip.
So the tip must be clean. The best tip tinner is your solder--tips should always be coated with a small amount of solder. It hampers a neat and clean desoldering of the circuit board.
Repair and touch-up and the use of wick. Its also recommended that operators - do not rub the tip on the metals to be joined also do not add solder directly to the tip - proper. Heat it up to around 350C and wait.
Unroll a portion of solder then roll the hot tip of the iron from the end of the solder until it does one complete turn on the solder. Finally apply solder to the tip again to protect it from oxidation. Make sure that the wires are not touching each other.
A nice alternative to using a heat gun. Step 5 Trim to fit. In the next practical tip we show you how to a broken cable repair.