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| seanspotatobusiness:
There are sellers of copper soldering iron tips which have no plating. My understanding and own experience of having damaged tips in the past is that copper dissolves in solder in which case won't these tips slowly dissolve with use? Are people meant to plate them themselves or what? |
| Brumby:
--- Quote from: seanspotatobusiness on September 18, 2018, 12:38:21 am ---.... that copper dissolves in solder in which case won't these tips slowly dissolve with use? --- End quote --- Absolutely. But they will be amazingly easy to manufacture. --- Quote ---Are people meant to plate them themselves or what? --- End quote --- No. User plating of tips is not a thing ... at all. You will be expected to just keep buying more tips. |
| chickenHeadKnob:
Back in the olden days soldering " irons " were simply square cross section copper bars with an attached handle. You would heat them in a fire and then use their thermal mass to heat the work and effect the join. The tips and work were usually tined with solder and plumbers flux sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) used as flux. Yes the copper will dissolve slowly and get fouled with dross so you will need to re-tin and clean often. Back in junior high school when schools still had metal workshop courses I used this type of primitive iron to fabricate sealed tin plate boxes. In his latest video clickspring shows this and talks about how ancient the technique is.: |
| drussell:
The non-plated copper tips are used for things like artistic wood-burning, etc. |
| cvanc:
That is not true; unplated copper tips will not dissolve slowly with use. They will dissolve quickly with use :-DD |
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