How To Use A Soldering Heat Gun

The solder is heated before the wire which is not how you solder.

How to use a soldering heat gun. At the low end 200 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit heat softens old paint and putty. To add a single new component to the board first place some solder paste on the component. There are good ones.

Through Hold Component Soldering on Circuit Boards. Keep some water around for the sponge in your solder station. Heat Guns are a handheld tool that uses a stream of the hot air which is heated by a built-in element at temperatures between 100C and 550C.

Keep in mind that hot-air is well hot. Its similar to the holder of a gun which is relatively easy to handle. Watch the solder to turn shiny to show that its flowing You can then remove the parts using tweezers or needle nose pliers.

Then fire the heat gun onto the solder paste holding the component with tweezers or another tool that wont catch fire until it becomes shiny. The tip is the most crucial part which touches the part you want to solder. Weve created another soldering video.

At the higher end 400 to 800 degrees it can thaw frozen. Saying the magic spell meltum meltum meltum move the nozzle back and forth until the solder begins to flow the solder should appear shiney and molten. You only need a little heat to burn right through some repairs.

A little heat burns right through some thorny home fix-up problems. Here I use a Dewalt heat gun to melt a solder ring fitting this is often much safer than using a blow torch which has a naked flame. Solder pastes are made of tiny solder balls with flux and they are basically same as solder wires but sometimes use of solder.