How To Make A Soldering Iron With A Nail

Get a piece of iron like an old raid road spike.

How to make a soldering iron with a nail. You can make a stand for a soldering iron from a conventional can. Commonly found in many books here are some samples I made and had chrome plated was not happy with finish and still have them somewhere in the scrap pile. The Heating tip consists of two parts.

Also most enail coils run at 120 volts. In this Instructables we are gonna make a 25 W soldering Iron. Cut the wire and bend it with the needle-nose pliers most needle-nose pliers have a wire cutter built in.

A 12V 20A DC adapter is used as power source here. Id have to say this method seems superior in all ways to using a butane torch. Allow the wire nail or other soldering tool of choice to heat up for about 20 seconds then move quickly to solder the components that require soldering.

Make sure it is tightly screwed on. I am pretty sure that soldering iron is 24v max. No problems so far.

Using the HE Nail Insert now Ive been using my DIY e-nail exclusively for a few months now. Given the short stout design of a normal soldering tip one being made of high strength alloy steel like a masonry nail Vs an all copper tip the thermal conductivity difference would be negligible. The high strength steel alloy on the other hand would also have superior oxidation and corrosion resistance over the soft copper at the normal temperatures that a soldering gun works at.

I use USB cable Adapter - port USB 5V -2A chump wood Wire copper 25mm Nichrome wire 01mm Heat treatment fiberglass sleeving - Hopefully I have inspired you to get Creative. Drive the square end of the spike about half way into the pipe you might have to drive in some metal shims like nails into the pipe to keep the spike from wobbling. How to make soldering Iron Easy.