I'm failing trying mitxela's trick of wrapping a wire around an ironbit for SMD soldering, any one got any ideas? This is a traditional 25W Antex iron it's wrapped on, but it's not getting hot enough on the wire, it boils off flux, melts low-melting point paste but doesn't do anything to existing components:
@penguin42 you dont have enough mass, tip cools down too fast. There are solder tips available for this kind of work, like the third from left. Maybe you are better off with one of these
@penguin42 Small heat guns are apparently meant for that usage.
I have a gas powered soldering iron with a heat gun head, that I use mainly for heatshrink.
@mansr 0.2mm pitch connector (which I've never tried before, my chances are very very slim, but I'm just playing with this wire trick on a scratch board first)
@penguin42 That's a fine pitch indeed. Still, as long as there's nothing else in the way, you should be able to solder it with a 1.5 mm chisel tip or similar. Use good solder, but not too much, and be generous with the flux.
@yrabbit Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a look; I doubt I've got any tinned that wide, I might be able to find some solid mains cable or something.
@yrabbit So I did try that, but first 1.5mm wire doesn't want to spiral easily, but then the second problem is trying to file the wire back down to a point.
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