How To Tin Soldering Iron Tips
How to Tin a Soldering Iron Tip or Re-tin an Old Soldering Iron Tip - YouTube.
How to tin soldering iron tips. The first step is simple but essential. Clear a work area then grab your soldering iron a solder sponge and water. A polyurethane foam bar with embedded abrasives which is used to polish the working end of the tip to remove surface oxides.
This is done by first ensuring the tip is clean and free of surface oxides. Turn the solder pot on and allow it to achieve the desired temperature. Please remember when the soldering iron has heated up it will need to be cleaned if youve used it before.
Dont be afraid to flood the tip with solder. Use Plato Tip Tin TT-95 Tip TinnerCleaner. Only apply flux to the surfaces of the connection to be soldered.
Never apply flux directly to a soldering iron tip. Have a can of rosin and solder ready for use can open and o. Here is the way I clean tips.
How to Clean Soldering Iron Tip. To Tin - apply a small amount of solder to the cleaned irons tip then touch the iron onto the previously cleaned area to be tinned. Same goes for the old soldering iron but in a different way.
Melt some good quality of solder wire on the Tip. If your soldering tip becomes detinned oxidized it can be restored in a number of ways. Tinning usually entails adding a small layer of solder on another metal.