How To Make Solder Gun Tips

A 4 long piece of 10 solid copper wire bent with a 18 radius heats up very fast and gets very hot.

How to make solder gun tips. When your soldering gun takes forever to warm up clean and tighten the connections that hold the tip to the heating elements. Wear protective clothing eye protection make sure the area is well ventilated and dont touch the tip or element of a soldering iron. Before you can start soldering you need to prep your soldering iron by tinning the tip with solder.

The three major hazards of soldering are heat fumes and the lead content of the solder. Tinning will also help to protect the tip and reduce wear. Screw back into the gun and you are done.

If you already have a soldering gun you can adapt it for resistance soldering without modifying the gun itself. When possible substitute lead free solder for leaded solder. The same wire bent with a 14 radius heats up very slow and barely.

Keep your hot air soldering iron firmly in place as you plug into a power source. The soldering tips are simply made from thick copper wire sculpted into the correct shape. Following are the few important guidelines to be followed to get best results in soldering.

With a pair of needle nose pliers a hammer and about 4 of common solid 14awg or 12awg house wire I make any tip for the Weller gun in under 60 seconds. I made sure the part of the tip that would be used for soldering was well tinned with solder this helps to protect it from corrosion. Unroll a portion of solder then roll the hot tip of the iron from the end of the solder until it does one complete turn on the solder.

Using a hot air gun can get tricky if you want to remove just one tiny part. Dont handle bare wire with dirty hands. Individual strands can be stripped in a similar way.