How To Make A Solder Gun

Make sure the conection of the pen-straw-stick on the lighter you can turn on with fire.

How to make a solder gun. The basic initial requirement for a heat gun for soldering with your own hands can be formulated as follows. In use the tip leads go on either side of the connection to be soldered. The first variant involves placing the tip with heater inside a metal pipe after inserting some ceramic spacers 2 at the extremities.

Once a soldering iron is used on plastic it mucks up the tip anyway making them useless for soldering so buy a cheap one for dedicated plastic only use. Whose prices range anywhere between US3 and US8. Weve been using soldering Irons for container holes for years.

If using a torch hold the torch tip at least 4 to 6 inches 102 to 152 cm away from the parent metal. The device must create a stream of hot air with a temperature of up to 800 C with a heating element power of at least 25 kW. If its hot enough the solder will quickly flow down the wire.

Even better is when you have one lying around in your toolbox somewhere A screw. Cut two half circles in each side of the soldering gun. Pull a length of solder from the reel or enclosed plastic case and press the trigger of the gun.

Solder the coil in series with the soldering gun trigger and the capacitor. Ad Quality Solder Wire Drawing Machine. Tin the wire by putting the soldering iron to the twisted tip and then touching the wire not the iron.

The soldering tips are simply made from thick copper wire sculpted into the correct shape. Heat the joint with your soldering iron and place the tip of the solder sucker over the hot solder. Note the light will come on and the tip should begin to heat immediately.