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| I use a wet sponge. | |
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| I'll always dip new tips in a bit of solder. So the tip gets a protective coating.
Also, when cleaning the tip, just clean it with a wet sponse, or peach of fabric. You should not clean it so hard, you can see the copper again. Grtz Mark |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:43 am Post subject: soldering iron become black |
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| I have a 25watt weller soldering iron and whenever i am about to solder i always clean the tip but it gets black before i even start to use it -that makes
soldering very diffcult!!! what is happening here? (1)do i need a better brand iron or tip? n:B the tip is made of copper. |
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