How To Make A Strong Soldering Iron

This video shows how to make a simple soldering iron using easily available materials.

How to make a strong soldering iron. This project demonstrates a simple soldering iron stand that you can build using a piece of thick wire and some basic tools. Get a piece of iron like an old raid road spike. A visit to a local welding shop netted me a couple for only.

This soldering iron tip This is what actually heats up to melt the solder. Turn the dial of the soldering iron to the lowest temperature. Hold it on the wire for 3-4 seconds.

Grind off the flat head. In this Instructables we are gonna make a 25 W soldering Iron. The Heating tip consists of two parts.

This was converted to hold a single tip made from a piece of carbon arc soldering rod. Now increase the temperature by 183. It is heated up to temperatures beyond its melting point at around 600 degrees fahrenheit which then causes it to melt which then cools creating the soldered joint.

This one has a built in switch so you dont need to buy one of those but it is also big. Keep turning up the dial until you find the temperature at which the solder melts slowly. Hold it by the wire for 3-4 seconds.

Switch the soldering iron on. Hold the two tinned wires on top of each other and touch the soldering iron to both wires. Attach one end of the heater nichrome wire about 0305 mm diameter near the sharp end 3 and start winding it over the insulation to make the heater resistor 4.