I used the hack and it made a massive difference, where before I could hardly melt the solder at all, it now works as I would have expected such a tool to work. I got the copper sheet from a jewelry hobby shop really cheaply.
@AxellTh4 жыл бұрын
I have used a peice of an old telescopic radio antenna. They Are made of brass. Works ok.
@gunsmithfiamma47886 жыл бұрын
Since I did not have any copper foil around, I used some aluminium tape and stripped off the glue from the tape with acetone. its a little bit thicker than aluminum foil and is working great. Before this mod the fine tips for SMD where almost useless....
@vicever087 жыл бұрын
Aluminum foil also works, just not put too much there. It can fuse the tip to the heating core. copper can oxidize easily. The better one is stainless steel, last forever, and will not fuse tip. Just need to be careful, stainless steel foil is razor sharp.
@andyleo8384 жыл бұрын
I was searching for copper then was thinking aluminium foil may work.
@ivanveljanov30482 жыл бұрын
I use a thermal paste-arctic and get optimum thermal conductivity !!!
@fungames24 Жыл бұрын
Some cheap tips are made from 100% iron. Once oxidised, they become quite useless for heating or wetting solder. Copper tips work fine even with an air gap. The heating element bumps against the tip at the front.
@jidissafi74135 ай бұрын
I wonder what it takes to get a clean delamination of the copper layer on PCB stock. God knows it doesn't seem to have any trouble lifting off an old board when you don't want it to. 🤬
@madvelila Жыл бұрын
Does the soldering tip need to bottom out so far that the bottom of the tip touches the cheramic heating element?
@treadmillrepair7547 жыл бұрын
Excellent, this is the solution for this problem. Cheers
@FSHerrante5 жыл бұрын
Any option to prevent the tip dissintegration in this soldering iron models?
@generalawareness1013 жыл бұрын
Happens with you as well? It happens fast for me where it starts to pit, then divots no matter how much I clean it, and retin it after each session. If I go back to sand down the divot/pit a new one happens almost immediately so I am suspecting the metal used in the tips is sub standard.
@FSHerrante3 жыл бұрын
@@generalawareness101 Yep i bought many tips because this reason and all death by the same. Tip carbonized and disintegrated.
@generalawareness1013 жыл бұрын
@@FSHerrante I didn't get that happening just the pitting that I have to say never happened before. Has to be because the copper used is inferior (sort of like Chinesium is an inferior iron type metal).
@seemajain78593 жыл бұрын
Every soldering bit is having the ring to remove this gap. use quality bit instead of the local low cost bits
@maramauu6 жыл бұрын
Do wrapping with aluminium foil (kitchen use) works same?
@rotembuhbut38555 жыл бұрын
no aluminum heat transfer is lesser then copper
@wowsuchhandle5 жыл бұрын
I presume it would be better than air
@irishguy2000073 жыл бұрын
Are they a good purchase?
@benjamengabriellewis88182 жыл бұрын
Could you have just used thermal paste?
@adilabusafa Жыл бұрын
أهلاً وسهلاً ومرحباً بك-يتعذر التعليق-لا أعلم .
@therealb8887 жыл бұрын
The copper is untinned. Soon it will oxidize & make the heat transfer worse.
@Extremflug7 жыл бұрын
But not worse than an air gap, I'm reasonably sure about that.
@therealb8887 жыл бұрын
Extremflug Ofcourse. if the air gap is huge.
@joshiepro31955 жыл бұрын
b888 I tried this mod a year ago and am happy to report that the shim still works perfectly. There is no discernible degradation in heat-up time so oxidation is not a factor. Before the mod, my iron struggled to desolder large heat sinks and components on large ground planes. After the mod, it was like I got a new iron...performance was significantly improved.
@yeunguoitung54537 жыл бұрын
sủa tiếng gì vậy
@ThangPham-ol8fy6 жыл бұрын
Yeu Nguoi Tung Duma đang coi clip tiếng Anh thấy có thằng óc chó người việt vô táp quần. Sợ vl