How To Clean And Tin A Soldering Iron Tip

Iron again which means adding a fair amount of solder and letting it.

How to clean and tin a soldering iron tip. The flux is oftentimes stronger more activated to help remove oxides. This should lead to a clean shiny tip ready for use. Cleaning the solder irons tip while it is in use will result in better soldering work.

A polyurethane foam bar with embedded abrasives which is used to polish the working end of the tip to remove surface oxides. Plug in the iron and turn it on. Soak the sponge using the water squeeze it out a little then use it to clean the tip of the soldering iron.

Wipe the iron on a damp sponge to remove the excess. That way the solder on the surface oxidizes rather than the tip itself. A solder pot may also be used to tin or re-tin your soldering iron tip.

Alternatively you can use a special polishing bar particularly of. Then dip into the tin of tinner cleaner with a slight twisting action. If you clean off the rust and spot a hole in the iron coating recognizable by the copper color showing through from the inside or if any part of the tip appears hollowed out its done.

The iron should NEVER be in the stand without a tinned tip Ie. If the tip is very dirty you may want to dip the tip in a commercial tip cleaning paste and then wipe it clean on the damp soldering sponge. Then of course you need to tin the.

This step will coat the iron in a mixture of flux and solder. Wipe the iron on a damp sponge to remove the excess. This sponge is used to clean solder off the tip of the soldering iron.