How To Make A Soldering Tip

Hold it on the wire for 3-4 seconds.

How to make a soldering tip. The solder melts and should stick at the tip. The soldering lead and the iron tip should be at an angle of 45 degrees so as the make the solder flow easily. If you have a soldering station with an adjustable temp control set it to 400 C 752 F.

Solder all the seams first with 6040 solder. After soldering check the solder joints carefully. This makes it best suited for work requiring high heat capacity.

Begin by making sure the tip is attached to the iron and screwed tightly in place. This is a quick and easy how to make a new tip because lets face it. Given the short stout design of a normal soldering tip one being made of high strength alloy steel like a masonry nail Vs an all copper tip the thermal conductivity difference would be negligible.

The heavy duty tip helps to reduce the time taken to solder each point overall causing a significant decrease which increases efficiency in the long run. Place the soldering iron tip onto the sensor and apply solder as if you were making a solder connection. A cone tip is an overall more versatile soldering tip.

Make sure your soldering iron is fully heated and touch the tip to the end of one of the wires. If youre reading this instructable you shouldnt be soldering chips ICs yet but if you WERE to solder ICs youd be soldering on an ESD mat. Turn on your soldering iron and let it heat up.

Using water soak the sponge that comes with the iron and squeeze it out a little. Pre-tin all wires and pads prior to soldering. Following are the few important guidelines to be followed to get best results in soldering.