How To Make Soldering Iron Wire At Home

Put back the switch on the soldering iron.

How to make soldering iron wire at home. Make sure that the wires to be soldered are perfectly clean. Use a good conditioned soldering iron. Do it as shown in the photo.

You should do this by starting to heat the tip. To make your own solder you would need a foundry to melt the copper and tin and specialized extruder to create the wire evenly and WITH a rosin core and a way to coat the solder evenly in flux a dip bucket just outside the extruder would probably do. Once you do this youll be ready to do test your soldering iron.

Once the flux starts bubbling you can begin adding solder. When soldering there are a few. A cold solder joint happens when the hot solder hits a cold wire hardening it.

Use liquid flux on the bare wire terminal. Then make two more bends near the center or loop of the first bend as shown in the video so the wire looks kind of like a z. Keep the soldering iron turned on and place it on the bottom side of the wire splice.

Heat the wire until the whole joint melts together. Cut a copper tip of about 7 to 10 cm long and 3 to 45 mm diameter of a copper rod. Now tape that.

If you want them to remain firmly connected youll have to make use of a normal tape to cover them together. Then add a tiny bit of new solder to the wire. Apply it with a small and clean brush wherever you want solder to stick.