How To Make Your Own Soldering Tip

A pointed tip is for small joints a larger tip is for big joints and Chisel tips are used for drag soldering to remove excess solder as well as unbridging excess solder on ic chips.

How to make your own soldering tip. Bottom line is that you want it to actually work. As solder melts you need to move it ahead. The best way to keep a soldering iron tip in good shape is by using tip tinner - available at the usual places.

Niche has a wide variety of ready made cables you can easily modify. For that youll still need to use a torch. The thread for my screwy-style tip is metric 4mm-by-075 and this is the same thread as RadioShack tm part 64-2073.

For it to work properly you need a notch in the lip of the solder sucker tip. It should be smooth and shiny. Take solder material in one hand and the soldering iron in another and connect both of them targeting the lead of component from two opposite sides.

If not check the two plates and make sure all your connections are good. Solder the exposed tips of the two copper wires to a power cord jack with a soldering iron. I use this type of solder extensively for my sculpture work.

Clean and tin the tip of the iron with a dab of solder lay the center conductor on the pad of solder in the solder cup and press the tip into the wire and cup. Add 1mm to 3mm of solder pull the solder away keep the tip on the pad and lead for 1 more second and pull the tip away and it should then be totally fine. Place your soldering iron over the tips and feed solder onto the wires.

After a few seconds the solder cup will reach the correct temperature the solder will melt and the center conductor will drop into the pool of solder. In case the iron tip is not connected to the controller the controller starts tip selection mode. Following are the few important guidelines to be followed to get best results in soldering.