How To Clean Soldering Iron Tips

This step will coat the iron in a mixture of flux and solder.

How to clean soldering iron tips. Use the Hakko FS100 Tip Polish as a supplement to regular cleaning Use clean damp sponges for regular cleaning Use a nonabrasive tip cleaner as an alternative to a damp sponge Hakko 599B Tip Cleaner Flood the tip with solder after cleaning to cover the entire working surface of the tip. Wipe the tip clean and re-tin it between every joint. If all else fails Soldering Iron tips do not last forever.

Each time you clean the soldering iron and put it away apply a fresh solder to the tip. Leave it there until the paste melts around the tip. This should lead to a clean shiny tip ready for use.

How to Clean Maintain Your Soldering Iron Tip For use with Solder Pro 100 110 120 150. Apart from removing the flux off it is essential to clean off surplus solder. To clean my iron I add some solder and shake it off.

This should lead to a clean shiny tip ready for use for more info see this video. Melt some good quality of solder wire on the Tip. Then dip into the tin of tinner cleaner with a slight twisting action.

Set the temperature of the soldering iron between 250C and 300C. It took a lot of effort with tip tinnercleaning compound to make the solder wet the tip again. Heat your soldering iron up to the low end of a typical work range generally between 280 and 320C.

Good soldering process is important. Take either a wet sponge or wire wool. Maintaining the right operating temperature ie 320 C.