I’d love to watch your vid, but if it takes you 10 minutes to tell me how to re-tin a soldering iron tip, forget it!

Lawmakers suck sometimes; banning lead from solder wires was a bad move.

At 8:00, you show how to easily remove the tool by opening the 2 handles; unless you have a different style that I don't know about, that technique does not work. Instead, you must rotate the know counter-clockwise to remove the die and tool from the installed rivnut.

This is great. Thank you Sir!

Very informative and professionally explained.

Well maintained tip will last years - the irony of this fact is because of that, I never saw my father tinning a newly bought tip. He got his solders when I was a little kid or even before that - and when he started teaching me how to solder some years later, all the tips he had were nicely tinned. He forgot to mention you have to tin a new tip, and I used one of our "shared" solders for ten something years. When I got me my own one, it was a total shitshow. The tip wasn't accepting tin, got blackened, and so on. Thinking it's a crappy Chinese tool, I scrounged myself some used kit manufactured somewhere in the 80s, and obviously, it came with tinned tips, so it worked - so I was totally convinced humanity has lost the art of making soldering irons and if you want to have one that works, it has to be as old as you. I learned about preparing the tip after more than 30 years of soldering. The irony. Felt like a total idiot.

Wouldt the sawder nelt off when you heat it up

The ISO is metric. Just saying. Great job.

My first attempt made tiny bubble. Lol. Thanks for video. Clamp that line tight!l

Video was done very well

You are an excellent teacher I live over see where electricity is 220 and I have a tool that is 110 and without your clear video I will never track it down thank you again

Just pok in to the durt

How much of the brake line should be exposed before beginning to flare?

I have a transformer in my air handler with 240v input but has a 31,15v output under load. It’s supposed to be 24v. Would this or could this cause my 5a fuse to blow? It’s basically 7.15v too high.

Good sir. 7 years later and you're still helping people thank you.

Explains why I have such a bad time trying to solder

'Cool' stuff man. Thanks for the 'hot tips' ! I never even heard of preparing a solder iron's tip by tinning before use. I only recently thought to get one to connect fan motor wires during servicings at home.

so I have a small power switch on a mechanical keyboard pcb, that is in entirely the wrong place for my needs. My plan was to desolder it, solder wires to each leg ( it has 6) and solder those wires back through the pcb. Is this feasible?

Can't find your plans I'm using a Corvette drive train in my 1926 Buick fordor and would like to look over your plans

Good video Sir. I would rather recommend a brass tip cleaner instead of stainless steel. Bass is way less abrasive and more gently to the tip's surface.

Didn't think about using it in this kind of cleaning application though; makes so much sense. Thanks!

Thanks Sr

I don't understand the purpose of wrapping solder wire around the tip.

Awesome video It worked perfectly. Thank you so much

Great tips (pun intended)! This explains a lot if soldering issues can be resolved with this simple process. Thanks!

Can i ask u. Is FINEX lead good to use for components? It say super flux cored solder wire 60/40, or it is just for wire only? Idk which one to use, i just wondering to broke my board

When replacing the tip with a new one how far in should the new tip be inserted before tightening? Thanks

I am having a very hard time with the lead free stuff that we now have to use at work. The component I need to work on can't be heated up too much so they have the iron set at 550 degrees and they want me to move quickly so the sensor will not be ruined by the heat. Also, the buss wire I solder to the sensor to make the legs longer (not sure why they don't just buy sensors with longer leads) will come un-soldered when I try to solder them to the board. With the older stuff it was much easier to say the least. Let's talk about lead in the land fills, I can't use a Tiny amount of lead solder, yet I can go to my outdoor shooting range and empty a mag of 45 acp at a target and then go hunting with 00 buck and spread 7 rounds of lead balls all over the woods for fun. I wouldn't use that much lead in a year or two doing PC Boards as I would in one afternoon at an outdoor range. If the government wants to ban guns all they would have to do is ban lead ammo.

Does cleaning with the plumbers paste create potential problems for electronic applications ? Or is no zinc actually left on the tip after dipping it and using steel wool

Thank you ❤

Thanks for explaining this. I am a total n00b with breadboards and electronics in general, so getting some things konfirmed which I've only guessed at helped a lot.

Wow I used to have that iron 30 years ago. Glad to see they are still in use

Awesome information and clear explanation thank you

EXCELLENT.

Nice job! Thanks for the lesson.

good job well done 👍

Green. End of transmission. Ground issue

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but 3 different soldering irons no tinning wth

This helped me out a lot with a totally unrelated project, thank you

are you taking the piss and deliberately saying Solder like a twat. or do you really think there are English words with a silent L in the middle? or should i say "Engish"

Thank you for sharing Sir, very clear!

The tip at 2:36 is a "metal tip" so can't be repaired? So the others are..what... plastic?

Thank you I have never heard of that so thank you

Thanks for that lesson. Steel wool is what I wasn't using. It does make a difference. Thanks again.

Please help me out here, why no grinding on non-copper tips?

nice

Does it really take 11 minutes to perform this task? 😮

Great video for starter with a little common sense. makes very clear and safely explained. Thanks!

Is there a difference in resistance between both types?

5:20 melting the plastic insulation of the cable…