How To Make A Soldering Tip

What destroys battery pads is time of heat not amount.

How to make a soldering tip. If you have a soldering station with an adjustable temp control set it to 400 C 752 F. 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. If youre reading this instructable you shouldnt be soldering chips ICs yet but if you WERE to solder ICs youd be soldering on an ESD mat.

Melted solder will bond to solder instantly much faster than solder to wire. Plug in the iron and turn it on. Next place your iron tip over the wick at 45 degrees and allow heat to transfer to the pad.

Place the soldering iron tip onto the sensor and apply solder as if you were making a solder connection. We clean the soldering tip and we place the components one by one so I will solder this IC socket which has 16 pins. Install the prepared tip in your soldering iron.

If it doesnt you need to remove all solder and grind the tip again more thoroughly. When you think about it the time to if youve already been soldering let the iron cool change the tip heat it back up remove the resistor let it cool again change the tip back heat it back up again then back to soldering. So here we are listing our own soldering techniques for readers convenience.

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. Unroll a portion of solder then roll the hot tip of the iron from the end of the solder until it does one complete turn on the solder. Apply the soldering iron tip to one side of joint making contact with the component lead and the board copper foil ensuring that both are heated up to the same temperature as shown in Fig.

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 the working surface of the tip. Wipe the tip of the soldering iron on. Tinning and proper cleaning is extremely important to make the soldering process easy.