How To Make Soldering Iron Hotter

The wires will begin to heat up.

How to make soldering iron hotter. In this video Ill be showing you how to double the wattage on a cheap soldering iron. Getting a dimmer is the first thing you should do when looking to increase the wattage of your soldering iron. An old soldering iron or anything suitable for a handle.

Do not push the solder around with the iron. Since soldering iron tips are not made from nichrome the way that wood-burning pens are ash and wood material will gather on your irons tip pretty frequently and will prevent you from actually burning the wood. Apply solder to the work not the iron.

In some expensive soldering iron there is a thermal shutdown feature also available. Clean your tip regularly. Cleaning the tip with a steel brush will alleviate this.

Hotter soldering irons will barely need to touch the foam if at all to melt it. Controlling soldering iron tip temperature is not the key element in soldering. Solder will flow toward the heat source.

Once the iron has attained the appropriate temperature hold the iron by one hand and the solder in the other. Two small scraps of copper or brass. How do I increase the heat of my soldering iron.

High heat for home use is created with electricity or by igniting a gas such as propane MAPP methylacetylene-propadiene or acetylene each of which burns hotter than the last. Any metal may do but its what I had. Next plug in the soldering iron and turn it on.