How To Make Soldering Tip

After narrowing down the tip shape and size considering the thermal capacity of the PWB.

How to make soldering tip. In order to empty the solder sucker press down on the plunger. Next place your iron tip over the wick at 45 degrees and allow heat to transfer to the pad. To use press the plunger down at the end of the solder sucker.

To make a long story short thats how I made the first tip. Do not keep the soldering iron tip more than 3 seconds on the soldering joint when soldering CMOS components. Wipe the tip of the soldering iron on.

And the electric components size and shape finally select the one that you think or feel comfortable using. Given the short stout design of a normal soldering tip one being made of high strength alloy steel like a masonry nail Vs an all copper tip the thermal conductivity difference would be negligible. Using a fine tip on my iron I again used a 700 degree tip dabbed the area with liquid flux and soldered the wire to the lead and exposed trace.

Select the soldering tip which you feel comfortable using. This is a quick and easy how to make a new tip because lets face it. If youre in the wrong position it will make soldering smoothly more difficult.

We clean the soldering tip and we place the components one by one so I will solder this IC socket which has 16 pins. This should leave the tip of the iron with a layer of solder on it. After soldering check the solder joints carefully.

If you have a soldering station with an adjustable temp control set it to 400 C 752 F. Step 5 Trim to fit. Begin by making sure the tip is attached to the iron and screwed tightly in place.