Make Your Own Soldering Iron Tip
Avoid over-tightening the locking nut.
Make your own soldering iron tip. I looked around the garage to see what I can make the tip out of and settled on a thick masonry nail. Stippling involves making permanent modifications to a firearm or component. How To Make Your Own Soldering Iron Tips - Approximate Cost - 009 eachApproximate Time it takes to make one - Less Than 3 minutesMaterials needed- Home.
First he transformed a normal pencil into a fully functional soldering iron. A 12V 20A DC adapter is used as power source here. The solder head a piece of thick copper wire is mounted on a pencil tip.
In this instructable I show how to make two styles of 4mm tip the slidey-style and the screwy-style. This will give you a working final product but is recommended to be used for testing and learning. Gently wrap some tape on the back end away from the lead.
Lastly youll slide the retaining nut over the tip and tip-retaining sleeve and tighten by hand. Since the heat is generated right at the spot you want to solder you will be radiating less of it into the air. I have a perceived need to make my own custom soldering iron tip for a moderately high volume rework job.
A quality soldering iron is made from copper 110 bar rod or wire stock. Sep 26 2009 2. So a few years ago I was trying to replace the tip on my soldering iron and instead of buying one I went the DIY route.
The only reason it would be plated steel is because its cheaper to make. Are these typically made of copper and then plated with something. I just slide a blade in to pry it open a little and slide a new one in.