How To Make A Soldering Gun Tip

Unroll a portion of solder then roll the hot tip of the iron from the end of the solder until it does one complete turn on the solder.

How to make a soldering gun tip. With a pair of needle nose pliers a hammer and about 4 of common solid 14awg or 12awg house wire I make any tip for the Weller gun in under 60 seconds. Then wrap some of this solder around the tip. For our project here we can use the most basic model.

This should leave the tip of the iron with a layer of solder on it. By now you would have known its majorly the application that makes the soldering iron and soldering gun different. Just remove the soldering tip and replace it with two lengths of the same gauge solid copper wire gapping them to suit the job to be done.

Be sure that the soldering iron tip is held in the horizontal to the sensor with minimal movement to maximize physical contact between the middle of the working surface of the tip. Because to solder something properly you need to make contact with the part youre soldering. Otherwise the Soldering Tip may Break.

Then start using the soldering iron on the grip. In order to empty the solder sucker press down on the plunger. A basic procedure will just have you dotting the grip by pressing the soldering iron to the grip polymer over and over one spot after another.

Then turn the soldering iron on and let it get to 750 degrees F and let the solder melt. Does it actually work. Slip the old nuts from the old tip over the wires and bend Ls into the end.

Mark your Glocks grip with a marker so you dont solder any part of the grip you dont want to be altered. With this you would be dripping melted solder onto the project. As you bend the wire tightly to make a point the heat is concentrated where the wires are closest to each other because there is less area for cooling If youre making tips that you plan to use for soldering they will last a lot longer if you bend them tight so.