How To Make Soldering Iron Hotter

A fast pinching motion with the soldering iron tip pulled out quickly then fingers immediately rubbed together to send any hot solder.

How to make soldering iron hotter. People have also recommended Glass or a slice of a ceramic light bulb socket. The thinner the material the better. Any metal may do but its what I had.

Please subscribe to me if you enjoyed the video. You dont have mica. Do not push the solder around with the iron.

In some expensive soldering iron there is a thermal shutdown feature also available. Still more firepower up to 3000 degrees will braze metals a stronger form of soldering that uses harder filler materials and cut or weld iron and mild steel. In this video Ill be showing you how to double the wattage on a cheap soldering iron.

Because of its extreme temperature capabilities you should set the soldering iron temperature to the lowest one possible on the device. Work must be clean. High heat for home use is created with electricity or by igniting a gas such as propane MAPP methylacetylene-propadiene or acetylene each of which burns hotter than the last.

Apply flux to work as needed. However the iron tip of a soldering iron will get much hotter than that. A good rule of thumb is to set the soldering iron tip temperature at 260 C 500 F and increase the temperature as needed to obtain the desired result.

2 temperature-controlled soldering irons allow you to be sure that the soldering iron tip maintains the right temperature but they are more expensive than basic soldering irons. In this aspect a soldering iron with nichrome wire will always be better than a conventional soldering gun. It is because a nichrome wire produces more heat than an iron without nichrome wire.