How To Make A Solder Gun

A direct flame on the repair area is likely to overheat the solder and flux.

How to make a solder gun. If its hot enough the solder will quickly flow down the wire. The soldering tips are simply made from thick copper wire sculpted into the correct shape. Note the light will come on and the tip should begin to heat immediately.

Twist the wire round. Using a hot air gun can get tricky if you want to remove just one tiny part. The first variant involves placing the tip with heater inside a metal pipe after inserting some ceramic spacers 2 at the extremities.

Of roughly 6mm thickness and 30mm length. Heat the joint with your soldering iron and place the tip of the solder sucker over the hot solder. Soldering is the process of using a filler material solder to join pieces of metal together.

The device must create a stream of hot air with a temperature of up to 800 C with a heating element power of at least 25 kW. Step One The Parts The very first thing we will need is a desoldering iron. I bought a Weller model WP25 for PCPC back 17 years ago and they use it almost everyday and it still works.

Once a soldering iron is used on plastic it mucks up the tip anyway making them useless for soldering so buy a cheap one for dedicated plastic only use. Tin the wire by putting the soldering iron to the twisted tip and then touching the wire not the iron. Even better is when you have one lying around in your toolbox somewhere A screw.

Youll have to attach the metal pipe to a washer 7 that will be fixed with some screws 9 and spacers 8 to the handle 10. Cut two half circles in each side of the soldering gun. Whose prices range anywhere between US3 and US8.