How To Make A Soldering Gun Tip

Otherwise the Soldering Tip may Break.

How to make a soldering gun tip. Does it actually work. Mark your Glocks grip with a marker so you dont solder any part of the grip you dont want to be altered. Using a hot air gun can get tricky if you want to remove just one tiny part.

Clean with a wet sponge. For our project here we can use the most basic model. Be sure that the soldering iron tip is held in the horizontal to the sensor with minimal movement to maximize physical contact between the middle of the working surface of the tip.

As you bend the wire tightly to make a point the heat is concentrated where the wires are closest to each other because there is less area for cooling If youre making tips that you plan to use for soldering they will last a lot longer if you bend them tight so. Bronze or soft steel brush. I made sure the part of the tip that would be used for soldering was well tinned with solder this helps to protect it.

He shows us how to make a tip for a soldering gun out of No. The soldering tips are simply made from thick copper wire sculpted into the correct shape. Use sandpaper first to clean the tip off.

When the oxidation is off cover the tip with solder once again. With a pair of needle nose pliers a hammer and about 4 of common solid 14awg or 12awg house wire I make any tip for the Weller gun in under 60 seconds. 12 Copper Wire - YouTube.

With this you would be dripping melted solder onto the project. Slip the old nuts from the old tip over the wires and bend Ls into the end. You may have to sand the cont.