How To Make Solder Gun Tips

Keep your hot air soldering iron firmly in place as you plug into a power source.

How to make solder gun tips. If you already have a soldering gun you can adapt it for resistance soldering without modifying the gun itself. When your soldering gun takes forever to warm up clean and tighten the connections that hold the tip to the heating elements. Tinning will also help to protect the tip and reduce wear.

Following are the few important guidelines to be followed to get best results in soldering. Turn on your soldering iron and let it heat up. This process will help improve the heat transfer from the iron to the item youre soldering.

Before going to soldering process it is very important to follow some tips and techniques to get best output. Bend the wire to shape as show in the photo. Wear protective clothing eye protection make sure the area is well ventilated and dont touch the tip or element of a soldering iron.

The smallest radius gets the hottest. Dont handle bare wire with dirty hands. I made sure the part of the tip that would be used for soldering was well tinned with solder this helps to protect it from corrosion.

So here we are listing our own soldering techniques for readers convenience. The same wire bent with a 14 radius heats up very slow and barely. Using a hot air gun can get tricky if you want to remove just one tiny part.

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. Before you can start soldering you need to prep your soldering iron by tinning the tip with solder. A 4 long piece of 10 solid copper wire bent with a 18 radius heats up very fast and gets very hot.