Tricks Tips Soldering

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Tricks tips soldering. To use press the plunger down at the end of the solder sucker. 6040 solder is recommended for beginners. Then wipe it off on a wet sponge removing everything except a thin layer of solder.

Never try to catch a falling soldering iron. The culprit is bad soldering tips. Before starting tin the soldering tip by adding fresh wire solder to it.

It cools quickly and keeps you from frying the solder to the tip. Keep your soldering iron tip clean. The heating of the solder tips causes the tips form oxides and the ability for the soldering iron tip to transfer heat is drastically reduced when it gets covered in oxides and burnt flux residues.

2 You can buy a solder removing vacuum tube. Its a metal wick that when placed over solder and heated with a soldering iron removes solder. Pressing the hot tip into the tinning compound will allow you to coat the tip.

If you dont have a tinning compound low-temperature solder is good for this. Use the thinnest solder appropriate for your project. In order to empty the solder sucker press down on the plunger.

Flux is a wonderful tool as it basically dictates where the solder will stick to your photo etches pieces. After soldering check the solder joints carefully. Melted solder flows towards heat.