How To Make A Homemade Soldering Iron Tip

Tinning and proper cleaning is extremely important to make the soldering process easy.

How to make a homemade soldering iron tip. With a pair of needle nose pliers a hammer and about 4 of common solid 14awg or 12awg house wire I make any tip for the Weller gun in under 60 seconds. If you see any solder splashes after just flick it off with you finger nail not the soldering iron. A quality soldering iron is made from copper 110 bar rod or wire stock.

Other articles told how to make two different types. Copper wire for the tip of the soldering iron. Masonry nails unfortunately dont bend.

Shortening the tip by 25 percent means a 1 inch tip turns into a 34 inch tip for example. Make an old soldering iron tip new quick and easyTakes less then 4 min if you are not holding a camera in one hand DSoldering iron tip cleaningsolderingD. On the board I put a chip that measures the temperature of the tip and three LEDs on the pcb which was supposed to indicate the temperature which could be set to one of three levels but during the programming I found it pointless in a 5V soldering iron.

If so you can do it with a normal soldering iron. The steps for making a threaded tip will require a die to make the threads. Steps in Making a Soldering Iron.

After the iron reaches that temperature hold it in one hand with the solder in your other hand. A piece of textolite. In this section we look at the most common soldering iron tips.

You can solder various microchips from a ballpoint pen with a soldering iron. An iron tube to be used as an electric heater case. Next position the iron between the areas where both components will join.