How To Replace A Soldering Iron Tip

Overtime the tip can become damaged from extensive soldering and will become brittle or melt during the process.

How to replace a soldering iron tip. Lastly youll slide the retaining nut over the tip and tip-retaining sleeve and tighten by hand. Expensive stations seem to have some kind of clipping mechanism the cheap ones I have used just have one screw to hold the tip in place. The solder melts and should stick at the tip.

You can purchase a new tip online or at your local hardware store. When you are finished soldering apply a thin layer of solder to the tip this will help prevent oxidation Never use the tip as a pry bar or screwdriver Use the lowest temperature possible this will prevent premature wear tot he tip and damage to the components Always use a tip. How to change them.

Slide the nut and retaining sleeve off the soldering iron heating element and remove the tip from the sleeve. The heating element inside a soldering iron heats up the metal tip so it can melt solder wire. I figure I can warm up things with the torch and then solder it with the iron.

Just let you iron cool down unscrew pull out old tip put in new tip and tighten the screw again. We recommend contacting your local Batteries Plus store as they may have a replacement battery option available. Start by turning off the soldering iron remove the iron and using a pair of pliers or some other kind of gripping tool to hold onto the hot metal parts clamp it down and unscrew.

Tips for one brand of soldering iron are often not compatible with others so be sure to verify that tips are designed for your soldering iron before buying them. Gently touch the soldering iron tip to the specified position of the sensor about 5 seconds Read the test temperature T result from iREWORK software or LCD Screen PS Usually stays in the range of about 3C 5C Due to once the test sensor oxidizes it will become mor difficult to accurately measure the temperature Please replace the sensor after approximately 50 measurements. Apply a small amount of fresh solder to the iron tip.

Your soldering iron expands and contracts when it heats and cools and an excessively tight locking nut can bind and make subsequent soldering iron tip. If some of the oxides are just sticking really well you could try to mildly abrade them on a brass sponge copper braid or similar but you cant be too hard or you will damage the iron plating good tips are typically copper core plated with iron then chromium everywhere but the working area. I picked up a butane torch with a soldering tip Ill likely soon get either one of the weller or bernzomatic butane irons.