How To Prepare A New Soldering Iron Tip

It the tip is too large for the braid it will hang over the edges and could burn the board or the solder mask.

How to prepare a new soldering iron tip. Clear a work area then grab your soldering iron a solder sponge and water. Well when the iron soldering warms up the iron plating which is the working surface would start oxidizing due to the temperature. Pay careful attention to the temperature of the iron.

This process will help improve the heat transfer from the iron to the item youre soldering. When the iron is fresh it is solder coated probably by first coating the tip with high temperature silver solder. The flux in tip cleaner removes the oxidation and build up from the soldering iron tip and then the solder re-tins the tip ready for use.

Oxidation is the biggest enemy of soldering tips. Operate at the lowest possible temperature 800F 427C or lower. Tinning will also help to protect the tip and reduce wear.

There are mainly 2 Components inside soldering iron. So when its heating up you must apply solder 60 tin 40 lead. In some expensive soldering iron there is a thermal shutdown feature also available.

This should lead to a clean shiny tip ready for use for more info see this video. Probably the easiest way is to grind or taper one end of a long brass rod and then make rough threads similar to the ones the original non-brass tip has screw it into the soldering iron cut it off an inch or so and then sharpen the end that was just separated from the rod. Before you can start soldering you need to prep your soldering iron by tinning the tip with solder.

Wipe the iron on a damp sponge to remove the excess. Tinning the tip extends the life of the tip by preventing oxidation and corrosion but it also causes the solder wire to melt and flow more easily over the parts you are joining making the overall. This step will coat the iron in a mixture of flux and solder.