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.

How to make solder gun tips. The same wire bent with a 14 radius heats up very slow and barely. Turn on your soldering iron and let it heat up. Both The heating element and blower should remain off until you hit the power switch.

Once the power switch is in the ON position the hot air soldering irons heating element will quickly begin to rise in temperature. When your soldering gun takes forever to warm up clean and tighten the connections that hold the tip to the heating elements. 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.

Individual strands can be stripped in a similar way. Keep your hot air soldering iron firmly in place as you plug into a power source. Place the desired tip into the retaining sleeve and slide it back onto the soldering iron heating element.

This process will help improve the heat transfer from the iron to the item youre soldering. So here we are listing our own soldering techniques for readers convenience. When possible substitute lead free solder for leaded solder.

I have been making different size and shape soldering gun tips out of wire wires. Dont handle bare wire with dirty hands. You may have to sand the cont.

This should leave the tip of the iron with a layer of solder on it. Just remove the soldering tip and replace it with two lengths of the same gauge solid copper wire gapping them to suit the job to be done. In use the tip leads go on either side of the connection to be soldered.