How To Make Solder Gun Tips

When your soldering gun takes forever to warm up clean and tighten the connections that hold the tip to the heating elements.

How to make solder gun tips. Masonry nails unfortunately dont bend. Bend the wire to shape as show in the photo. Keep your hot air soldering iron firmly in place as you plug into a power source.

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. I made sure the part of the tip that would be used for soldering was well tinned with solder this helps to protect it from corrosion. This should leave the tip of the iron with a layer of solder on it.

This process will help improve the heat transfer from the iron to the item youre soldering. Before you can start soldering you need to prep your soldering iron by tinning the tip with solder. In use the tip leads go on either side of the connection to be soldered.

I have been making different size and shape soldering gun tips out of wire wires. Just remove the soldering tip and replace it with two lengths of the same gauge solid copper wire gapping them to suit the job to be done. Tinning will also help to protect the tip and reduce wear.

The three major hazards of soldering are heat fumes and the lead content of the solder. Slide the retaining nut over the tip and retaining sleeve and hand tighten. Begin by making sure the tip is attached to the iron and screwed tightly in place.

You may have to sand the cont. If you already have a soldering gun you can adapt it for resistance soldering without modifying the gun itself. Dont handle bare wire with dirty hands.