How To Clean Soldering Iron After Use

Then dip into the tin of tinner cleaner with a slight twisting action.

How to clean soldering iron after use. With the soldering iron at normal soldering temperature stab quickly and repeatedly then immediately add solder the kind with flux in it. Thrust the iron tip into the tip cleaner a few times till it has an even coat of solder. After that wait for three minutes to allow the tip heat up adequately.

Turn it off as soon as you have finished soldering. To use the Tip tinnercleaner heat the soldering iron. When you heat up your work for soldering and reach the temperature at which solder flows you are also creating oxides on the surface of your metal that mar its appearance.

Just try to wipe it off after every 4-5 solder joints. It took a lot of effort with tip tinnercleaning compound to make the solder wet the tip again. After securing and preheating the PCB and void in a vice or PCB holder you suck the solder off the board by squeezing and releasing the bulb from behind the hole.

You can use your fingers to put the new tip on but will need the plyers again to tighten the nut. Use a microfiber cloth to apply a thin layer of alloy cleaner. Melt some good quality of solder wire on the Tip.

This should lead to a clean shiny tip ready for use. But for the harder to remove stuff I keep a brass wool pad handy. This will help to prevent dust buildup and will help to prevent further oxidization too.

Once clean and shiny perform tinning and now your tool is ready to use. In November we dealt with removing a particularly tricky oxide called fire scale. Cleaning up after Soldering.