How To Make A Soldering Gun At Home

With this you would be dripping melted solder onto the project.

How to make a soldering gun at home. Heat the joint with your soldering iron and place the tip of the solder sucker over the hot solder. This is a handheld mechanical vacuum that sucks up hot solder with a press of a button. Other articles told how to make two different types.

This article will describe some simple to build soldering irons that can provide 15 - 30 W and are powered at low voltage 5 - 12 V depending on heater wire you use. It should dry shortly to create a firm connection. I scored a Weller 8200 soldering gun at an estate sale one street over from me for a few dollars.

Assemble the Soldering Gun. At the same time solder the front twisted wires together so they will not come apart. I got it home and it didnt workit wouldnt heat upso maybe they knew exactly what they had.

Just like any soldering task clean the solder then apply the flux. Solder a blob of lead free rosin core to the surface. Looks like something Macgyver would make.

To use press the plunger down at the end of the solder sucker. You position the end of a tinned wire just so with the solder held between the ring and pinky fingers of the same hand. Use a quality soldering gun to avoid a messy circuit board.

Place the desired tip into the retaining sleeve and slide it back onto the soldering iron heating element. They didnt know what they had. Because to solder something properly you need to make contact with the part youre soldering.