Soldering-

[martin]

I also understand that even a soldering iron should be grounded for sensitive electronics, a lot get away with an ungrounded iron myself included. But i also have a solder station that is grounded as well for smaller work.

[Speed3]

I think its easier to clean the soldering iron when it is hot.

Heat it up. Then wipe it with a moist sponge.

[CraigP]

You should always clean a tip when hot! If you try and file or use an abrasive material, you can easily remove the thin plating on the tip that allows it to wet with solder easily. Once you lose that, you might as well throw out the tip, it will be nearly useless. It will get things hot, but the solder won’t flow from the tip to the work good at all. Be sure to wipe the tip quickly on your wet sponge when using flux. They are acidic and that will remove the playing too, especially when hot.

[tlandauer]

I hit the switch and let it cool down just a hair. If you clean the tip with full hot temp, by the time you turn off the rig the tip is oxidized again.

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[T.S.Davis]

This helps a gaggle.

Tip Tinner

[Rezendes]

I don’t have any issues with cleaning my Hako soldering irons tip. I do use a wet sponge and occasionally dip the tip in soldering paste that seems to clean thr tip and leaves it slightly tinned.
My real question to you all is the type of solder you use. I seem to be having issues with ESC to motor connectors coming unsoldered particularly when I run 6S. My motor ESC temps range 130 to 150 F

[1coopgt]

Damp not wet.

[Norwest]

Connectors are not rated at 6S. Silver solder would be best which require more heat to melt. Also your prop maybe to large in mm arena.

[Peter A]

I don’t have any issues with cleaning my Hako soldering irons tip. I do use a wet sponge and occasionally dip the tip in soldering paste that seems to clean thr tip and leaves it slightly tinned.
My real question to you all is the type of solder you use. I seem to be having issues with ESC to motor connectors coming unsoldered particularly when I run 6S. My motor ESC temps range 130 to 150 F

I have had a few connectors desoldering in recent times. I have changed them to OSE ones and taking more care in the soldering to make sure there is a better connection.

[Rezendes]

For the ESC to motor connectors I use OSE 6.5mm gold connectors and EC5’s for the battery connections. The prop on the Sonic Wake was modified specifically for the SW and the UL19 is still the stock prop, even though I have upgraded the motor and ESC.

[Rezendes]

What temperature is the silver solder rated for? Do you know the melting temp of silver solder vs 60/40 rosin core?

[Norwest]

Rezendes- Google to find out. I know my big iron melts rosin core pretty fast but for silver solder, the big boy takes longer to melt ss. That's my take. Plumper solder melts faster.