Make My Own Soldering Iron Tips

Brass same length as copper tip with 2 times the diameter or 075 times the length of the copper tip and 17 times the diameter of the copper tip.

Make my own soldering iron tips. This will help you. Stained Glass Soldering Techniques. This is a quick and easy how to make a new tip because lets face it.

I turned it on and soon made a perfect solder joint with my new cordless iron. In this instructable I show how to make two styles of 4mm tip the slidey-style and the screwy-style. Doing this first will take care of any mild buildup and help you discern in a safe way whether the tip is still too warm to touch with bare hands.

If so you can do it with a normal soldering iron. A temperature-controlled iron has a thermostat which switches off the heater when the selected temperature is reached. Later I tried to make my own soldering iron using a pencil lead heating element a crayola marker housing and some wire.

There is a locking nut that holds the tip and tip-retaining sleeve in place locate and unscrew this nut. So the best bets here are. Take a wet sponge and rub it over the top of the solder iron.

Start to control of your soldering iron. Tinning and proper cleaning is extremely important to make the soldering process easy. This is where you apply a little bit of solder to the tip of the iron before you do any soldering.

If your tip wont wet clean it with sandpaper or sometimes just the wet sponge and then melt some flux-core solder. I tested by soldering. There was enough current passing into the solder to make a little buzz in my arm.