How To Make My Own Soldering Iron

Most of us are used to temperature controlled.

How to make my own soldering iron. Keep the iron in place and touch the solder to the wire until its fully coated. 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. The little hassles add up.

If you see any solder splashes after just flick it off with you finger nail not the soldering iron. Application of the solder is called tinningsince percentage of tin is more in the flux. Now your soldering iron is completed.

An old soldering iron or anything suitable for a handle. We know it sounds like youre going to end up lit up like those much-parodied dads trying to set up Christmas lights on the rooftop during the holidays but this process actually works quite well. Most materials available in the market have melting points below this.

Kasyan TV shows us how to make a really simple DIY induction soldering iron complete with DIY soldering tips. You should do this by starting to heat the tip. Hold the two tinned wires on top of each other and touch the soldering iron to both wires.

Assemble All Appropriate Parts and Tools. Plug in the iron wait and wait for it to heat up wait some more while your work piece warms up. Soldering material used for the purpose is an alloy of tin and lead and is called flux.

Some of the problems. If you want them to remain firmly connected youll have to make use of a normal tape to cover them together. If so you can do it with a normal soldering iron.