How To Make My Soldering Iron Hotter

That soldering iron tip is going to have a pretty weak magnetic field it is AC and you are drawing it away slowly.

How to make my soldering iron hotter. Typically up to like 350deg C is. The idea is to heat the metal parts not the solder. There are few things that will impact the soldering temperature that you need on your soldering iron.

The ball of solder will oxidize rather than the metal while its on. And we have an adjustable soldering iron that we can use to set the. 400-500ºF - small components.

I used to take them out in the garage and file off the plating then Id use a small hammer and an anvil to hammer the point of the tip to the small size I prefer. With something much much hotter than that in this case were getting good. Get a soldering sponge which looks like this.

This particular model here offers an adjustment knob that we. For tiny SMD soldering I put in a small tip and drop the temperature to 330C. You can use your fingers to put the new tip on but will need the plyers again to tighten the nut.

Then dip into the tin of tinner cleaner with a slight twisting action. Eutectic solders at about 360 so were going to go. There are mainly 2 Components inside soldering iron.

Then place the iron where the two metal components meet for one second. Once the iron has attained the appropriate temperature hold the iron by one hand and the solder in the other. You put a powerful AC electromagnet next to it and draw it away slowly.