If you decide to repair broken headphones, a bluetooth headset, or any other device that has a thin and small microcircuit, you will need a soldering iron with a thin sting. But sometimes it happens that this very sting, due to some circumstances, will not be at hand. You can, of course, go to the nearest specialized store and buy the right one, but not the fact that the tool you need is available there. Or you can get used to it and do everything with an ordinary, standard sting. But why take the risk and suffer when a thin sting can be made in just five minutes, without leaving your home, from the materials that are in the barn or pantry of almost any person. We will prepare the required materials and proceed to manufacture.
Would need:
- Copper wire, the thickness of the sting required by you.
- Aluminium foil.
- Pliers.
- File.
- Nippers.
- Scissors.
- A tube from a room antenna, or any other, from any metal, suitable in caliber for a hole in a soldering iron.
Making a thin soldering tip
It is indecently simple, but reliable and efficient. Using wire cutters, we separate the length of the copper wire we need. We cut off a long strip of aluminum foil with scissors, the width of which is less than the length of the wire selected by you, by exactly as much as the tip should bulge out of the soldering iron. We attach the tip of the wire to the tip of the wire, which will be directly with the sting itself, with the file you need.
We wind the foil onto the wire to the thickness of the inner diameter of your existing tube.
The foil should be wound as densely as possible, the tip heating speed depends on this - the denser the layers adhere to each other, the faster it will heat up. Using a file or file, cut a piece of tubule equal in width to the width of the foil wound around the wire.
And now we insert the wire wrapped in foil into the tube.
The tighter this design is, the better. To fix the stability of the fiber inside the tube with foil, using a knife blade or scissors, we bend the edges of the tube inward, as if clogging it inward.
If it was not possible to choose a suitable tube, simply wrap the foil to the thickness of a standard tip and wrap it with a thin copper wire. Well, insert a new tip into the soldering iron!
The effectiveness of such a sting is not at all lower than that of a sting bought in a store. Before connecting the device to the mains, we dip the sharpened tip of the sting into soldering acid so that solder then sticks to it without problems.
Now you can use it. But do not forget that this is only a temporary way out of this situation. You can use this design two to three times. Not more. Then, when the foil inside the tube burns out, the heating of the device will be much longer than usual, and the sting-wire will begin to fall out of the tube, so if possible, still get a real sting in the store.
