Make Your Own Soldering Iron Tip
Make sure your soldered connections are NOT TOUCHING.
Make your own soldering iron tip. Properly using a soldering iron means properly maintaining the tip. The first method incorporates the use of copper wire as the soldering tip. When you think about it the time to if youve already been soldering let the iron cool change the tip heat it back up remove the resistor let it cool again change the tip back heat it back up again then back to soldering.
That is not to say that it produces the same heat as a 60W soldering iron however. Hackaday Prize Entry. Youll want to keep your new soldering iron tip.
This will give you a working final product but is recommended to be used for testing and learning. So a few years ago I was trying to replace the tip on my soldering iron and instead of buying one I went the DIY route. Sep 26 2009 2.
You need to wind the wires around these contacts and connect them at both ends of the contact using a screwdriver to tighten it when you are done winding. All it takes is desire patience practice a few tools and you can be on your. The solder head a piece of thick copper wire is mounted on a pencil tip.
Having soldered one end of a wire to a switch you move on to the next step in your hack soldering the other end of the wire to the. A copper wire is rolled at the tip and the project is powered through a USB cable attached. Why You Should Tin Your New Soldering Irons Tips and More.
It is well worth the modest investment regardless of the cost of the iron itself. That stuff is great. I just slide a blade in to pry it open a little and slide a new one in.