How To Make A Soldering Iron With A Battery

Made my own hammerhead tip for a cheepie 40W RS soldering iron from a nut and bolt with the same thread as the normal tip uses.

How to make a soldering iron with a battery. It gets hot up-to 60 degree C in only 10 seconds. TAKUMI KBI-645 Battery Soldering Iron 6W 45V Wireless electric iron soldering iron. The first device used a battery charger that I already had although a new one was about 50.

I just connected the charging leads to a home made hand piece applied it to my brass pieces flipped the switch and applied the solder. Place the wire next to it reheat the solder and slide the wire into the melted solder. While most jewelry makers and welders probably purchase their soldering irons its actually possible to make your own soldering iron out of graphite pencil car battery and jumper cables.

Copper wire for the tip of the soldering iron. Im going to get a hammer-head soldering tip to make the job easier and make my own battery jig outta balsa. Installing the Ralim custom firmware for the TS100 made by Ben Brown you also get some nice features and the possibility of setting the power source explicitly to a say 5S battery.

It heated almost instantly melted the solder. 4 AA batteries is 6 volts and about 2700 mAh each so 16200. Two sets of rechargeable batteries inside a Maglite case provides power to heat a soldering iron tip.

Tin both both sides of the batteries with a small amount of solder let it cool down before soldering the wires to it. Most soldering irons are 20 60 watts. I flipped the switch off and it cooled quickly.

The blue and yellow stuff is your soldering iron and the black wire is the negative terminal. The longer you leave your iron on the battery the more heat will build up. Wipe the tip of your soldering iron on the wet sponge to clean it.