Hello! I have new ERSA Multitip 25W soldering iron with 172BD tip. The tip itself has an area of different color at its tip which I assume is used to actually solder.
My problem is tinning the tip. I've read lots of tutorials and seen lots of videos on YouTube related to tinning the tips. Usually they take hot iron and apply some solder to the tip so that the working end of the tip is covered. After that they clean it with a sponge or the mesh cleaner and it looks nice and shiny from all sides.
My problem is that only one half of the tip is getting wet. I turned on the iron and waited for one minute (datasheet says that it will reach operating temperature in 60s). I then tried to apply some solder to the diferently colored area of the tip, but it refused to melt. I waited for a couple more minutes thinking that manufacturer exaggerated a bit in the datasheet. After that the solder melted but constantly kept flowing to one side of the tip. At first I thought of gravity and rotated the iron, but then again the soler kept flowing to the same part of the tip. After I cleaned the tip, the covered part looked shiny and the non-covered part was black.
The shiny part seems to be working properly, but the non-shiny part does not seem to work as efficiently.
Also the tip itself changed color. Bottom part of the tip is now blue while the top part is yellowish. Iron itself is also changing color and the heating element part which had shiny metallic color is now yellowish. Is this normal result of oxidation?
I think that I'm doing this wrong and that there is some simple and obvious step which I'm missing.
My problem is tinning the tip. I've read lots of tutorials and seen lots of videos on YouTube related to tinning the tips. Usually they take hot iron and apply some solder to the tip so that the working end of the tip is covered. After that they clean it with a sponge or the mesh cleaner and it looks nice and shiny from all sides.
My problem is that only one half of the tip is getting wet. I turned on the iron and waited for one minute (datasheet says that it will reach operating temperature in 60s). I then tried to apply some solder to the diferently colored area of the tip, but it refused to melt. I waited for a couple more minutes thinking that manufacturer exaggerated a bit in the datasheet. After that the solder melted but constantly kept flowing to one side of the tip. At first I thought of gravity and rotated the iron, but then again the soler kept flowing to the same part of the tip. After I cleaned the tip, the covered part looked shiny and the non-covered part was black.
The shiny part seems to be working properly, but the non-shiny part does not seem to work as efficiently.
Also the tip itself changed color. Bottom part of the tip is now blue while the top part is yellowish. Iron itself is also changing color and the heating element part which had shiny metallic color is now yellowish. Is this normal result of oxidation?
I think that I'm doing this wrong and that there is some simple and obvious step which I'm missing.