Homemade Hot Air Soldering Iron

Attach the air tubing to the TEE and the air pump.

Homemade hot air soldering iron. Looking for a good soldering iron. If you could fit a cheap tip on it itd be even better. I have tried something similar with steel wool and a Radio Shack desoldering iron.

In under 15 seconds from turning this baby on I reached in excess of 300 degrees centigrade hot air. Adriajunyent-ferre took a pair of cheap 5 USB soldering irons and turned them into a nifty pair of SMD soldering tweezers. The stations total power consumption is about 1270W with a 500W Hot Air Gun 70W Soldering Iron and 700W Preheating technology.

For this size of chip surface tension will actually snap it perfectly into place unless there are shorts in the solder. Adjust the knob to set the desired temperature value hot air gun air volume adjustment must press the adjustment knob to convert. 45 Hot Air Pencil Link.

The basic things you are going to need are an air-pump a soldering iron a copper tube 14 and a pen tip. Aug 8 2013 3. I often use a soldering iron to solder SOT-23 SO-8 and even occasionally TFQP-64 packages.

DIY Hot Air Soldering Iron Link. It includes an air pump with digital controls hot air wand and suction pickup tool. The soldering iron seems to work absolutely flawlessly.

Let go with the tweezers. Hot air workSMD soldering is something I need to break down and learn. Modern soldering irons are purely resistive loads as incandescent lamps so you can safely use a cheap triac light dimmer to vary the temperature.