How To Make A Soldering Iron Hotter

You can make your own by heating the metal and pulling some out in a long thin shape.

How to make a soldering iron hotter. Getting a dimmer is the first thing you should do when looking to increase the wattage of your soldering iron. In a pinch pun intended Ive wiped my soldering iron tip with my fingertips. You only need to take a solder wire that has rosin base flux and cover it around the irons tip.

Steps To Increase A Soldering Irons Wattage. This could be made into a tweezers. Clean your tip regularly.

Use Heat Shrink Tubing. A fast pinching motion with the soldering iron tip pulled out quickly then fingers immediately rubbed together to send any hot solder flying. The majority of soldering irons have three basic temperature designs.

With the wires you want to join twisted together and held in place pick up your soldering iron in one hand and your solder in the other. Pliers will keep it at the proper place as well as tighten the windings. This is especially helpful if you do not have heating mitts or a metal handle for your soldering iron.

Make sure your hands are not touching the ground tip. The key element is controlling the heat cycle of the work. Since soldering iron tips are not made from nichrome the way that wood-burning pens are ash and wood material will gather on your irons tip pretty frequently and will prevent you from actually burning the wood.

Make A Tiny U-Shape On the Box. In this video Ill be showing you how to double the wattage on a cheap soldering iron. You put a powerful AC electromagnet next to it and draw it away slowly.