Soldering Tip Cleaning

Are you telling me that neither Arrow or Weller could pony up for 24-50mm lens so we can see the oxidized tips or some close up shots? Proper soldering in all about the details. Otherwise a good video and I appreciate you making this. Great collaboration and I love my Weller 1010. Just please put a back light in the display and it would be perfect!

What a great video, thank you! I was the guy that just turned up the heat and made it worse. Thanks again for a very helpful video!

As a telecom technician I occasionally had to do soldering repairs/upgrades in the field. I found the best/easiest way to clean my Weller soldering tips was to use a small piece of cardboard and insert the tip into one of the cardboard edge holes and rotate it in there. Very little tip heat loss (unlike a cold/wet sponge) and almost always took only one insertion in the cardboard to totally clean the tip. Of course on my office workbench I used the proper tip cleaning methods. Also, we had bins full of extra solder tips so replacement when necessary wasn't an issue.

i pretty much made every mistake mentioned in this video this weekend and destroyed the tip of my new weller. #LiveAndLearn

Soldering is so easy when you know what you are doing and miserable work when you don't. It looks so easy when you watch a skilled person.

Maybe I was using too much tip tinner... didn’t know it was an acid and would eat up the tip. That must explain why my last soldering session went so wrong lol. Not to mention I use lead-free solder and a cheap iron with no temperature controls. Thankfully getting a better iron (a whole station) soon and learning more about tip care. Thanks for these videos.

Quality video. As a beginner hobbyist, I was only interested in what the cleaning paste does. But watched the whole thing just because it sounded interesting.

Great info for me as a person who is learning on my own. Thank you

Great presentation! Thank you both.

Very big fan of Weller products

Sponges from home and no good I can vouch for that I just went and got a high-temperature one for soldering and it's awesome big difference thank you my man

close ups are needed

Awesome explanation!

Thank you Mr. Pete and Kristen very well explained, the video is very informative and Helpfull.

Great video, I'm just learning, and this was was a big help of info!

years and Very helpful and interesting video. I've been an electronics hobbyist for years, and I still learned a lot.

Thank you! Very informative and helpful video.

Great valuable info, thanks!

Fantastic info, thank you.

Thumbs up to the Lady that don't interrupt the professional from speaking. I saw Hakko presentation and this lady "Yik Yak" interrupting most of the time when the technical personnel explaining. She treated it as a talk or Gossip show. End result, customer felt digusted!.