How To Make Homemade Soldering Iron Tips

This is a quick and easy how to make a new tip because lets face it.

How to make homemade soldering iron tips. But it will replace your soldering iron for most jobs and will let you do many things impossible to do with an iron. Second many soldering irons have interchangeable tips. Make an old soldering iron tip new quick and easyTakes less then 4 min if you are not holding a camera in one hand DSoldering iron tip cleaningsolderingD.

It heated almost instantly melted the solder. Materials soldering iron in want of tip replacement several cm or inches of 6 AWG solid not stranded copper electrical wire. First he transformed a normal pencil into a fully functional soldering iron.

Weller makes a lot of different soldering irons. Tools vise hacksaw small drill press file sandpaper steel wool etc Note. Apr 8 2014.

It is called a mesh bin and it is made by Copco. Take a wet sponge and rub it over the top of the solder iron. A second version of this soldering iron with smaller dimensions will definitely be created.

Any silicate adhesive or water glass. A small sheet of copper foil. Next I had to find some good sponge material.

Soldering iron tips have varied uses from creating circuit boards to making jewelry. This will apply heat to the parts instead of the solder. Next position the iron between the areas where both components will join.