How To Make Solder Tips

To solder two pieces of wire together just place the tinned ends side by side and heat briefly.

How to make solder tips. Touch the tip of the soldering iron to the wires and keep it there. Bend the legs slightly to secure the part. Place soldering iron tip on the pad.

Heat the joint with your soldering iron and place the tip of the solder sucker over the hot solder. You can touch the solder to the wires not to the tip of the iron periodically to see if its hot enough. It can look like the joint is good but in reality the solder is only on the outside of the wire and not pulled all the way through the wire strands.

If you want to join two wires with solder the first thing you should do is to tin the two wires. Place the tip of the iron on the wire and let it. Fitting the Solder Joint.

Place the board so you can access the pads with a soldering iron. 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. Place the braid over unwanted solder preferably on the greatest solder build up so that it maximizes the contact of the braid to the surface area of the solder.

This should make the tip silvery and somewhat shiny ready to solder. If you accidentally solder two chain links together or solder a stray piece of metal where it doesnt belong Lexi says to prepare a sharp clean solder pick and lightly heat the offending seam. Then stick the pick in the seam or between the joins and pull them apart.

It is better to keep a small bottle of alcohol and some q-tips and cotton swabs handy to clean the area afterwards. Step 5 Trim to fit. We clean the soldering tip and we place the components one by one so I will solder this IC socket which has 16 pins.