A "Tinning" Trouble

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 53, 19 July 1929, Page 37

A "Tinning" Trouble

QOME amateurs are more or less perpetually worried by , the "tinning" burning off their soldering irons, and, as it is generally a: hopeless. task to ati apt any efficient soldering work _ Without a properly tinned iron, much valuable time is expended in repeated tinnings of the iron. , Of course, the preservation of the on a heated soldering iron is, inmany respects, a matter of experience only. One of the best ways of preventing the trouble-is always remove ‘a soldering iron from the fire or gas dame ag soon as the characteristic green colouration is seen, ; Again, an iron should always be aced in the fire or flame with the "inned surface upwards. This simple sreeaution will do much to prevent, the sdider on the iron from running or dropping off when it has reaehed a molten state, and, in fact, if the two. points deseribed -above are earefully attended to in practice, the amateur will find that he will he able to reduce the number of repeated re-tinnings af his soldering-iron yery considerably, ©