How To Use A Soldering Heat Gun

Keep some water around for the sponge in your solder station.

How to use a soldering heat gun. Saying the magic spell meltum meltum meltum move the nozzle back and forth until the solder begins to flow the solder should appear shiney and molten. Heat Guns are a handheld tool that uses a stream of the hot air which is heated by a built-in element at temperatures between 100C and 550C. The holder is used for gripping or holding the gun.

If heated enough that the wire is above the melting point the plastice melts and solder pours out. But even then it is more reliable to solder the wires and then slide heat shrink over it. Use a heat gun to heat it up closing the cover and voila.

Here I use a Dewalt heat gun to melt a solder ring fitting this is often much safer than using a blow torch which has a naked flame. A little heat burns right through some thorny home fix-up problems. It does take more time.

You now have a nicely dressed perfectly functioning wire. A heat gun is often much safer than using a blow torch here I solder two pipes together using a solder ring fitting. The air from the heatgun can blow small parts around.

Preheat with the torch try to heat it relatively evenly. To add a single new component to the board first place some solder paste on the component. Be careful especially with the smaller parts or the parts that might be heat sensitive.

Solder pastes are made of tiny solder balls with flux and they are basically same as solder wires but sometimes use of solder. A good heat gun is necessary for desoldering larger parts. Apply plumbing solder but do NOT play the torch across the solder.