How To Clean Soldering Iron Tip After Use

Clean the tinned tip and you have a refurbished soldering tip.

How to clean soldering iron tip after use. This should lead to a clean shiny tip ready for use. Wipe the iron on a damp sponge to remove the excess. Melt some good quality of solder wire on the Tip.

To apply the tip cleaner first heat the soldering iron. Usually the solder protects it are you cleaning the solder off and leaving the iron hot. Only use brass wool to clean the tip and only clean it before use not after.

To use the Tip tinnercleaner heat the soldering iron. Turn it off as soon as you have finished soldering. First go read up on soldering iron care.

Wipe the iron on a damp sponge to remove the excess. If all else fails Soldering Iron tips do not last forever. Heat your soldering iron up to the low end of a typical work range generally between 280 and 320C.

Then dip into the tin of tinner cleaner with a slight twisting action. Heat it up to around 350C and wait. It took a lot of effort with tip tinnercleaning compound to make the solder wet the tip again.

Once the re-tinning product melts around the tip hold it for several seconds and then clean the tip using dry cleaning methods like brass wool or an automatic tip cleaner. Also wet sponges encourage oxidisation they clean all the solder off then present steam to the hot metal. Set the temperature of the soldering iron between 250C and 300C.