How To Change Weller Soldering Iron Tip

The bright color silver is called tinning the tip.

How to change weller soldering iron tip. Wip off old solder put on new solder wipe off solder put on new solder. Hold the solder to the tip while its heating up to make sure you tin the tip before it has a chance to turn black. The flux in tip cleaner removes the oxidation and build up from the soldering iron tip and then the solder re-tins the tip ready for use.

There are various plating processes used in making soldering iron tips. Wipe the iron on a damp sponge to remove the excess. Filing off the black really isnt the best thing to do--It leaves microscopic holes and fissures in the tip which A Reduces the effective surface area and B promotes burning inside the fissures where the tin doesnt go.

850 2532 164 Plug. My Weller tips get abused because I kinda donated it to a lab and I had to replace it twice in a year excessive heat but my Hakko T18-IS tip lasted like 2 years and got bent I switched to a. Install the prepared tip in your soldering iron.

As soft as possible. The WCC100 soldering station uses the popular ET series soldering tips which are used on other Weller soldering stations EC series WES51 WESD51. Heat it up to around 350C and wait.

The solder melts and should stick at the tip. WX1010 WX1011 WX1012 WX2020 WX2021. Unplug the soldering iron and allow it to cool completely.

Turn off and unplug your iron or base. If it stops performing replace. Tip the soldering iron downward and the loose tip should now fall out.