I had purchased an ST7 for soldering on circuit boards, but the tip was a bit larger than I expected and didn't work as well as I had hoped. Looking for something with a finer point on it.
I had purchased an ST7 for soldering on circuit boards, but the tip was a bit larger than I expected and didn't work as well as I had hoped. Looking for something with a finer point on it.
What kind of soldering iron, hopefull a pencil and not a gun for ease of soldering in tight spots. You could just use a jewelers file to narrow up that tip.
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Last edited by bust3dstr8; 04-21-2013 at 01:37 PM.
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I have the ST7 as well and I can't imagine a finer tip than that. If you find one, let me know.
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Well, I recently tried to solder the D0 wire for an Xbox mod, and the tip was just too big to make a good solid connection. My old wireless soldering iron had a super fine tip that I used back in the day, but that iron petered out a while back. I got a nice Weller's iron and want mod a few things, including an Atari FB2 to play 2600 carts. Just wanted to make sure I have a nice fine tip to solder to pcb's if and when the need arises.
I'll look into a the 1.5 tip suggested by bust. Thx!
http://www.amazon.com/Weller-ST7-X0-.../dp/B000B607OC
i use a Maplin temp control soldering iron until i can afford a much better iron.
I fix things. You name it, I'll work on it. Want something modded? Recapped?
The plating burns off anyways once it is properly tinned. I have salvaged worn tips by filing, no reason why taking off a little would hurt. Also look at the situation, the tip described in the OP is already purchased. The tip will easily survive the solder job, soldering on a PCB would take only a few seconds anyways.
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A tip here mate get some tip cleaner it give the tip a new lease of life.
http://www.amazon.com/Aoyue-Solderin.../dp/B005C789EU
And this if you filed a tip down a bit,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MULTICORE-TT...item1c2ba14d1d
You could use a 15 Watt Grounded Radioshack Soldering Iron. The default tip is quite sharp, and is rather cheap too.
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