Homemade Hot Air Soldering Iron

Now try out your soldering technique by applying hot air using your thumb to throttle the air flow.

Homemade hot air soldering iron. 45 Hot Air Pencil Link. J1 is a mini-USB jack R3 and R4 are 0805 resistors C1 C4 and C5 are 0805 capacitors and U1 is a TSSOP16 USB-to-UART converter. Hot air workSMD soldering is something I need to break down and learn.

Modern soldering irons are purely resistive loads as incandescent lamps so you can safely use a cheap triac light dimmer to vary the temperature. The soldering iron seems to work absolutely flawlessly. Connect the handle turn on the power to turn on the power switch the display shows the factory set temperature value hot air gun 100C the largest air volume soldering station 200 C temperatureair volume setting.

Let go with the tweezers. The hot air gun is identical to a soldering iron as it heats up the soldering lead to secure the component on the board. The soldering iron temperature is from 392-896 degrees F.

Furthermore the unit is entirely ESD Safe ensuring you. I have tried something similar with steel wool and a Radio Shack desoldering iron. But for hobby SMT soldering I prefer to use a standard temp controlled Weller iron with 015 solder good solder paste is expensive and does not keep long without refrigeration.

If you could fit a cheap tip on it itd be even better. Adriajunyent-ferre took a pair of cheap 5 USB soldering irons and turned them into a nifty pair of SMD soldering tweezers. On the one end you place the pen tip something like the one in photo 2.

The basic things you are going to need are an air-pump a soldering iron a copper tube 14 and a pen tip. The two irons are coupled together using a. My first thought was a cheap Hot Air Rework soldering station like the Atten 858d 300AUD however Ive seen Micro Soldering Irons such as the Weller WT1010 Soldering Station with WTP90 Handpiece.