How To Make A Soldering Iron With Household Items

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How to make a soldering iron with household items. If you have ever had to wait a long time for your soldering iron to heat up the large connectors that you are soldering an 800W RSU might be a handy addition to speed things up. If you end up with big droplets of tin on your tip just clean it. This will heat the solder below which will then be absorbed into the desoldering braid.

No special skills are required. There are two tools I use for desoldering. Make a slit starting 2 inches from the end of the wire all the way to the end.

Before you start soldering you should tin the tip of the soldering iron. A soldering iron is an essential edition to your workshop if you are even remotely interested in electronics. Which just means to melt some new solder onto the tip.

By Sam DeRose in Circuits Soldering. Once you get it working for the types of jobs you do Id recommend making a wooden box to house the RSU or possibly buying a plastic tool-box. A high power iron is like the paint roller it is the correct tool for the job.

Just heat the solder joint to make the solder fluid then suck it off with the solder sucker. How to make and use your own solder wick. This makes the tip transfer heat faster and thereby making the soldering easier and faster.

You will first start off with a short length less than a foot of thick braided copper wire. I found that without solder it is very difficult to get the solder to suck into the wires. It will liquefy and clean up the wires so the solder sticks nice and securely.