Let’s Make a New Tip for My Soldering Iron
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Tinning and proper cleaning is extremely important to make the soldering process easy. This is a quick and easy how to make a new tip because lets face it; you can't buy new tips very easily.
I needed a new tip for mine and a set of 3 costs more than I paid for the soldering iron originally. Thanks for the money-saving tip!
"...partly because Im not an expert..." hmmm you just became an expert in my book :) thanks!
Thanks for watching. Hope you learn something
Thank you Paw Paw. You are a good teacher. I learnt something new from you. Looking forward to learning more from.you. I am not an American. But I love the way how you honour your national flag. It's beautiful.
You are so welcome and thank you very much.
Awesome did this yesterday , worked better than the ones it came with. Fishermen ingenuity 😁🎣
Great to hear! Thank you for sharing
With this I can finally solder the motors on to my micro rc plane
Yes you can
Great tip thank you for sharing that video with us I really appreciate that I have to do that to my soldering gun. God bless you family and friends.
Thank you for the great comment and you're welcome. It's a habit that everyone needs to get into. Clean that tip after every use. If I tell that to myself enough I might learn the lesson too.
@@PawPawsWorkShop so true 🤣
This is KZhead. Please keep your comments to a more appropriate etiquette befitting of this media. Make sure you're comments consist of complaints or corrections and be composed of many spelling errors. It is also encouraged you act like a smug 14 year old who knows everything and makes sure everyone knows it.
The best tip to use in an emergency or budget is an Iron nail that you can cut to length. They generally fit perfectly into the iron. Then you file the edge until you are close to what you want for a tip. Add solder and again file with the bead of solder on it, tinning the tip. Afterwards, you can solder just like using a regular tip and the tip will not oxidize so long as you keep a little solder on it. If the solder starts to oxidize, simply wipe quick with a wet sponge and re-apply solder before soldering. You do not want to use copper wire in a soldering iron as copper when heated attracts oxidation like crazy; thats why copper turns colors or gets dark when hot. you want a clean solder joint when soldering parts on, not a cold or cracked one. The cracks can be so small that you can't see them with the naked eye. Find a good iron roofing nail, cut the head off! I've used it for years on one of my irons with no issues.
Great suggestion, thanks
Iron soaks up heat but the delta is to low for soldering. Basicly the iron nail will retain the heat, and not transfer it to the work fast enough. It will work on soldering very thin wire, but that's about it. Even a medium sized solder pad on a PCB will fail to be soldered by an iron tip. It's worse if the componet has a heatsink pad, or the PCB has a ground plane. On the other hand a copper tip works perfect. You just have to be attentive to cleaning & retining it. The commercial tips use a plating of iron & chrome. The very thin plating only hinders the transfer of heat a small amount, and is considered a viable trade off for the benefit of reduced maintenance of the tip. If you look at the vast majority of tips for old style soldering guns, not soldering irons, they are almost always pure copper with no plating. Although more expensive plated tips can be purchased for the soldering guns if you so desire. TLDR; pure copper is perfectly acceptable. They just require more maintenance during use.
@@williamallen7836 I was just suggesting for emergency situation. I've never had an issue using an iron nail on anything whether it be PCB or wire, in fact, my soldering iron in my garage still has it in there. it's a 30W soldering iron too, not very hot, just add heat sink grease on the end before placing it in the iron.
So that's why my iron tips Glow red or oxides fast , i know it's cheap tips but thanks for the info man
Hello.My name is Mikhail I'm from Russia.I like this video .From Russia with love.Good luck and I hope you have good day
Thank you very much.
Thanks for sharing. Can you remove your old tip and reshape as well?
Excellent idea, good job 👌👍
Thank you very much
BRILLIANT!!! Merci Paw Paw 👍🏻
Thank you very much
Thank you for sharing this video.
My pleasure. Thank you
very nice, really learned something, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Is that 7 AWG wire , looks like a Weller iron ? They used to be easy to find at rummage sales .
Hi from uk.My weller solder iron tips are expensive as the temp control is the magnet on bottom that seperated when at temp (clicking) it's like loosing my left arm with a busted iron so....I'm gonna fashion a tip ad you did. Appreciate video
You're welcome. I hope that is works for you.
AT 2.55secs you say that you are going to clean old tip and re-tin did I blink ? I missed it or it never happened
To re-tin, just clean the tip, put flux on the tip and add solder, then wipe off the excess with a clean rag.
Nice video I liked it.
Thank you very much
Nice snips I have the same ones👍
Awesome. Thanks for watching
Is that a Chicago Electric iron? What AWG is that wire you from which you made the new tip?
My tip is ferrous in nature (not sure if steel or cast iron, it's just attracted to magnets), would it be right to swap it for a copper one?
I'm actually not sure. All of the soldering irons that I have had were copper.
hello, thanks for sharing.. i didn't know that the copper can be found at the store... quick question: are the tips pretty durable? i've noticed that the ones that come with the irons are made of copper with some sort of coating..
The one that I made as a replacement has lasted longer than the one that came with the iron. The coating is solder. Its called tinning the tip.
@@PawPawsWorkShop I read somewhere, original one comes with nickel coating it save it from oxidation.
@@sudhirsaini6760 thanks, you were correct
@@PawPawsWorkShop ok thanks..
Any reason you can't flip the old tip end for end and reshape, then use it?
Hi, can i use silver metal for my soldering iron
You should do some very specific research on using silver. Depending on the metal it may turn black and you will have limitations. Please do your research on the specific metals that you are using.
keep going making cool videos :)
Thank you
Ever made rectangle shaped tips (for desoldering) ?
No, I have not. LOL. I have never needed one.
@@PawPawsWorkShop Maybe I'm just too lazy :)
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀
Thi type of soldring gun is repaird that wires are damaged insind how to repair plese tell
You only have two wires inside. Connectivity is the key. Check each wire separately
copper only like that ain't gonna las...,it pits right? i think tips must b plated with something and you must not file them or sand them?
It has last over a year so far with no problems. No pits. The plating is the tinning. The new tip works great.
@@PawPawsWorkShop What does the tip look like now? I have a similar soldering iron and I was thinking of doing the same.
What rod size did you purchase?
The size will vary depending on the size required for the soldering iron.
most soldering irons come in 30W, 60W, 90+W. the one shown here is a 30Watts. 30W take 3.5mm diameter tips. (0.14inch) the 60W take 5mm dia. tips hope that helps
thanks alot
My pleasure
thanks sir
My pleasure. Thanks for watching
Naked copper has never worked for me,tried all kinds and sizes; the tip needs to be plated; they say with an alloy of iron,nickel and chromium; each metal has a different function there; that is why,maybe,there are professional tips costing upwards of 20 dollars each; maked copper oxidizes,turns black, and pits too easily, i just could never solder with them after the first or second job.
Go ahead
Yep, it works great.
Could just snip an inch off the old tip, and give it the same treatment. I've never seen such a long insert in a soldering iron! On the iron I have, the tips not even an inch long, probably less heat transfer.
Why do you say soder solder has an L in it which is not silent
Sorry, I’m from the Deep South with a southern dialect mixed with other parts of the country. I’m working to improve on each video that I do. Thank you for watching
No problem good informative tutorial
RED COPPER OR YELLOW
Tell me im not the only one who gets triggered when they call a soldering iron a soldering gun
lol, sorry it bothers you. It was not worth redoing the video for using a wrong word.
Not a good idea to be pointing a screw driver directly to your radial artery (wrist) at any time. That sent shivers up my spine. I couldn’t finish watching this video.
Thank you, I'll take a look at that again. Not aware of that
Pussyfied manbun. Toughen up
2:22 where is a "soldering gun"? looks more like a "pen" than a "gun"
Well, congratulations, you stated the obvious, it is a soldering iron as the title states. You are so smart to pick out my one word that I misspoke. I appreciate your comment and I hope that the remaining of the video did in fact help you.
Soldering Iron, Not gun. soldering guns are actually shaped like guns...
Good catch! I did not catch that until after I published it. Thank you. I've made new tips for those as well, but that's for another video.
That's not a soldering gun. It is a soldering iron.
Yep, you’re right. Slip of the tongue.
MAN upgrade to tips 900m yours is 3or 4 gen obsolete
Lol, that's a good idea but I stay on a budget and this old school tips works for my needs. Maybe someday I will get some.
that is the version with digital regulation but if too much this one:pt.aliexpress.com/item/32996751300.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.451413595JJJiy&algo_pvid=66bc22ea-c3b8-4702-b685-a67fe0de6a9c&algo_expid=66bc22ea-c3b8-4702-b685-a67fe0de6a9c-12&btsid=0bb0623916022616946155771e4fdd&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_
Thank you
Thanks a lot
lol not a gun. I have a soldering gun with a trigger
Yep I misspoke but I did not think it would cause such a stir so I chose no to retake the scene