Tricks Tips Soldering

In order to make the soldering tip last longer keep it clean and also tinned.

Tricks tips soldering. Heat the joint with your soldering iron and place the tip of the solder sucker over the hot solder. Then wipe it off on a wet sponge removing everything except a thin layer of solder. Its a metal wick that when placed over solder and heated with a soldering iron removes solder.

Heat the tip and add a little amount of solder to cover the tip. Touch the solder to the metal prong. We heat up the socket foot and the soldering spot.

Do not keep the soldering iron tip more than 3 seconds on the soldering joint when soldering CMOS components. The number of likes on this last one indicates this little trick was new for many people. Solder wrapped onto a fingertip means the rest of.

Keep your soldering iron tip clean. After heating the solder to its liquid form you can use the tube to suck up the solder. Do not move the joint until the solder has cooled.

If you dont have a tinning compound low-temperature solder is good for this. Press the release button to suck up the liquid solder. The heating of the solder tips causes the tips form oxides and the ability for the soldering iron tip to transfer heat is drastically reduced when it gets covered in oxides and burnt flux residues.

Apply very little flux in the solder joints and make the soldering. If there isnt too much solder there the pick will break the surface tension holding the two together and they will pop back to being separate. The culprit is bad soldering tips.