How To Make Soldering Tip

Wipe the tip of the soldering iron on.

How to make soldering tip. Place the soldering iron tip onto the sensor and apply solder as if you were making a solder connection. Do not keep the soldering iron tip more than 3 seconds on the soldering joint when soldering CMOS components. To use press the plunger down at the end of the solder sucker.

After a minute or two the iron should be hot enough to steam when touched to the sponge. In order to empty the solder sucker press down on the plunger. Rest your soldering hand on the bench to stop it wobbling as you go.

When the iron is hot wipe both sides of the soldering tip on the sponge. 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. Step 5 Trim to fit.

Dont be afraid to move your panel so that you get the best angle for running the bead. Turn on your soldering iron and let it heat up. Be sure that the soldering iron tip is held in the horizontal to the sensor with minimal movement to maximize physical contact between the middle of.

This should leave the tip of the iron with a layer of solder on it. This might challenge you but try holding the iron like a pencil and drawing it towards yourself. We clean the soldering tip and we place the components one by one so I will solder this IC socket which has 16 pins.

If you have a soldering station with an adjustable temp control set it to 400 C 752 F. We heat up the socket foot and the soldering spot. The soldering lead and the iron tip should be at an angle of 45 degrees so as the make the solder flow easily.