How To Make A Soldering Gun At Home

This article will describe some simple to build soldering irons that can provide 15 - 30 W and are powered at low voltage 5 - 12 V depending on heater wire you use.

How to make a soldering gun at home. You set the soldering pens target temperature to something lower. Looks like something Macgyver would make. Given the short stout design of a normal soldering tip one being made of high strength alloy steel like a masonry nail Vs an all copper tip the thermal conductivity difference would be negligible.

Lucky for me its easy to learn how to repair a Weller soldering gun. Heat the joint with your soldering iron and place the tip of the solder sucker over the hot solder. A visit to a local welding shop netted me a couple for only.

With this you would be dripping melted solder onto the project. This was converted to hold a single tip made from a piece of carbon arc soldering rod. Because to solder something properly you need to make contact with the part youre soldering.

Use a quality soldering gun to avoid a messy circuit board. Solder a blob of lead free rosin core to the surface. It should dry shortly to create a firm connection.

Although soldering irons are quite cheap widely available and come in various shapes and sizes heres the DIY way. To use press the plunger down at the end of the solder sucker. Slide the retaining nut over the tip and retaining sleeve and hand tighten.

Place the desired tip into the retaining sleeve and slide it back onto the soldering iron heating element. Press the release button to suck up the liquid solder. Use a ¼-inch shrink-wrap sleeve to shrink wrap the base of the soldering lugs.