Solder Iron Tip Tinner - Lead Free
Keeping your soldering iron tip is essential in extending tip life and in enhancing thermal transfer during soldering. Traditionally this has been done by hunting for the end of the solder hanging off the spool everytime you replace the iron in the holder or retin it after an extended time in the holder.
Tip tinner is a small can of solder paste used to tin the tip. We have only started using it recently and wanted to try it against the more traditional method before carrying it as a product. You simply dip or roll the iron tip in the paste each time you remove the iron from the rest or replace it before wiping in on your wet sponge. (You..... you do that don't you?)
This paste is lead-free but we have found it works OK even when using lead solder. The only thing we have found is that it does not perform as well in tinning an iron before using it with solder wick as conventional flux bearing wire solder. We have been using the same can on my work bench for about 4 months. It sees daily use and we are perhaps 1/3 of the way through the can, so it should last the casual user quite a long time.




















