I spent most of my Military Service repairing Electron Equipment down to the component level, that being said the first thing I noticed was the fact that the soldering iron tip was dirty, easy fix, heat the iron and then wipe it against some steel wool and then a wet sponge. Second and almost as important as a clean iron tip is the use of flux on the part, in this case, a piece of wire, me;t the solder on the iron tip and then applied to the wire or component. If the tip was really clean the solder would have flowed and covered the entire tip. This video is a waste of time and energy.

@TheRaginghalfasian

7 ай бұрын

im not saying your are wrong, but dude got this to over 750,000 views so far over 2 months... i think he did what he set out to do

@leeburrowdotcom

7 ай бұрын

@@TheRaginghalfasian I’m going to say they are right. This “hack” cost more than the cost of that soldering iron. Just buy a new set of tips for $2 or the whole iron for $5 or clean the top for near free.

@PigeonLaughter01

7 ай бұрын

​@TheRaginghalfasian its all in the click bait title. Bring back the thumbs down count!

@anonymousbosch9265

6 ай бұрын

I was an AE in the Navy and I concur

@churrymsi2269

6 ай бұрын

This is really a disservice, the guy, instead of cleaning the tool, comes to me with a trick, and is making money by teaching something useless and more expensive than simply cleaning the tool... 👀

It's not patented because all you had to do was remove and clean the original tip, they cannot transfer heat when they become dirty.

this is an excellent example why youtube must make the dislike count visible. the method presented in this video is a life hazard in particular since this soldering iron is powered from main. now in case someone loses his life in one of these videos, wouldn't google & youtube be held accountable for intentional removing a key parameters that serves as a warning to many?

@elredo7277

8 ай бұрын

If you have firefox, there is an extension called "Return KZread Dislike". This guy has 13k dislikes.

@messylaura

8 ай бұрын

yep, vids like this need the dislike not to hate but to show how many people think its a nonsense vid or nonsense tech

@LoganRicardo

8 ай бұрын

@@elredo7277 I use Chrome and it has the same extension, now this video has 19K+ dislikes vs 3.3K, pff...

@chriswright8114

8 ай бұрын

@@elredo7277 that extension is available for multiple browsers but, more importantly, it's a practically useless extension. it doesn't return the dislikes, it just takes a guess as to what the dislike count would be.

@chrisbowers310

7 ай бұрын

You should not pretend to know how to solder or give advice on the topic. You have no idea what you are doing. Just stop. Also just buy a new tip they are cheap.

Notice in 1st example solder is being applied at the bottom of the copper wire where there is insulation and anyone that knows how to solder knows you don't melt solder on the iron then apply it to the part. in the 2nd example solder is applied at the top (end) of the wire so it flows down through the strands and the iron is used correctly. This isnt patented because its useless and now your lawn mower won't start. flux and a clean tip will out perform this waste of time every day that ends in Y.

@armangunpla409

9 ай бұрын

Nailed it brother. 👍

@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121

9 ай бұрын

Not sure if it's correct but I have a ceramic bowl with scrunched up wire with flux. I scrape the tip after every use and the solder always sticks nice and shiny. 😊

@SVThailand

8 ай бұрын

But you watched and commented and so did i. The channel wins! We lose😢

@eddietowers5595

8 ай бұрын

No. Commenters also win because we are doing a great service to the public in the name of common sense and safety.

@harryberry474

8 ай бұрын

@@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121 ...that's called tinning or cleaning the tip, which should be done frequently I use a damp sponge at my work station and just wipe the tip after each solder joint. Looking at his solder tip it appears he doesn't know that. The tip just needed to be cleaned and re-tinned. I also use flux to help keep tip nice and shiny. It's not rocket science.

A clean tip as mentioned is important as well as using the correct tip, but the real problem here is that you should heat the wire with the iron and let the solder flow into it, Not melt the solder and dab it on.

@bsrsonptyltd5854

8 ай бұрын

A bit of fresh solder on the iron with its flux helps transfer the heat to the wire quicker so thats not the real issue, Remember he wasnt trying to tin the wire itself, but waste peoples time drawing out a pointless excercise for views and ad revenue.

@grannytakesatrip1128

8 ай бұрын

@@bsrsonptyltd5854 ...and you suckers fall for it all the time, they're laughing all the way to the bank thanks to you suckers. Hahaha.

I can't believe 3200 people gave this a thumbs up.

@denverscott37

8 ай бұрын

I'd like to know how this got more than 600 thousand views??.

@raymondo162

7 ай бұрын

i can. i REALLY REALLY can. yt is full of STOOPID FOOLS, telling IGGERANT FOOLS to do FOOLISH things

@TheNefastor

7 ай бұрын

Clearly none of them has ever even touched a soldering iron.

@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity

6 ай бұрын

Paid upvote/view services are a thing.

@ArifGhostwriter

5 ай бұрын

​@@denverscott37View-count is mainly a function of thumbnail efficacy - little else. There's no way to then know that most regretted said viewing!

It's not patented because it is an inferior soldering iron tip. Use tips that are designed for your iron, they cost a lot less than a spark plug plus man hours to cut a piece of iron conductor from it. I would never risk damaging my expensive iron, or my customers repair by playing silly buggers with the tips, I have around 20 tips of different shapes and sizes, and change them according to the job. Just shoving a piece of metal into your iron won't work, you will never know the heat range, i.e a tip too thick or hot can damage components next to the one you are soldering. Videos like this are dangerous, they teach younger of more inexperienced persons to tamper with equipment, sometimes making them electrically dangerous,

How do we have KZread *not* recommend a channel ever again?

@cliveyb5326

9 ай бұрын

See the three dots to the right, just click on "don't recommend chanel". I do it all the time for this clickbait shit.

@tookitogo

8 ай бұрын

@@cliveyb5326Unfortunately that only works on the home page. It doesn’t offer that in search results. :(

@trampster7306

4 ай бұрын

@@cliveyb5326 I can't find that option when viewing KZread on my Laptop?

This was all totally ridiculous! Just learn to use the soldering iron and none of it would be necessary!

How to turn a soldering iron into a slightly different soldering iron. Incredible.

@richardmeredith6534

9 ай бұрын

If only they made soldering irons with interchangeable tips, oh wait they do..

@KrotowX

8 ай бұрын

How to break cheap soldering iron and make clickbait money from it.

@theodorekorehonen

8 ай бұрын

I think this is just dumb rage bait stuff because content creators know it gets people commenting and that makes money on youtube

@fredmercury1314

7 ай бұрын

@@theodorekorehonenNot from me. I run an ad blocker.

Oh dear, another 3.29 minutes I'll never get back !

Keep the soldering iron clean and heat the wire you want to apply solder to with the minimum heat solder will flow.

Amazing, you made a soldering iron out of a soldering iron 👏

@CreativeHacker7

8 ай бұрын

🔥🤝

@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity

6 ай бұрын

@@CreativeHacker7You hearted your own comment. How pathetic lol

Or you could always change the tip. You know the ones that came with the soldering iron?

Watching people solder incorrectly is always entertaining. 😎

If you solder correctly with the original tip, like you did with the weird tip, it would work fine. You were just melting solder without even touching the wire in the first part. There's three and a half minutes wasted.

A little flux would make it work better. OTOH, you also had more wire sticking up in the second solder attempt. Obviously, the less heat sink there is at the sight of the solder joint, the less heat it takes to solder.

@hatapakoekoe

7 ай бұрын

Flux on wires is the baddest you can do. It will get sucked in the wires mantle and oxidating your complete wires within a small amount of time to a breaking point. That soldering iron isnt hot enough, and its a Pointed tip. This solution is no solution, this is just shit.. im sorry🤷🏻‍♂️

what was the difference? the first soldering took place near the bottom ...the second took place closer to the top and turned out better.... skip the modification scene and just learn to solder properly.

@BPo75

9 ай бұрын

The first "soldering" he was just putting the solder on top of the iron, trying to balance it over to the wire once molten... so yes, in essence spending half an hour "solving" the problem he created, then demonstrating the "solution" by doing what he should have done in the first place: keeping the iron in full contact with the wires and then apply the solder thread.

@francstrucl4506

9 ай бұрын

Nafukancija za naivne

@EdgardOPENSADOR

9 ай бұрын

Eu prefiro o ferro de solda tradicional

@macforme

9 ай бұрын

@@EdgardOPENSADOR It makes more sense.... ( es mejor.) 🤣👋

Hola, como estas ? con todo respeto, sueldo hace muchos años y no he tenido que hacer nada de eso, solo mantengo las puntas de los soldadores limpias y hacen el trabajo perfecto, no hay ninguna necesidad de hacer eso, saludos !!

@eliasfidelis1247

9 ай бұрын

Melhor condutor de calor é o cobre aqui estanhador vem coa a ponta de cobre....

Cool! You really made an effort, but it was worth it. You are very very wise and careful. Sell ​​your idea to Weller and they will definitely buy your great idea! They will buy new spark plugs, then break them to get a piece of wire for 5 cents, then a paperclip and we have a good, durable and safe solution. You are very wise and careful in what you do. Write to Weller and they will buy it and you will be rich and wise.....

@faschwank

8 ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@michaelszczys8316

7 ай бұрын

Good business, buy a two dollar part to get a 5 cent piece of wire out of it. Sounds like a money maker to me.

@raymondo162

7 ай бұрын

dunno where you get spark plugs from ........ in uk they're tenner minimum @@michaelszczys8316

PS: some spark plugs are made from Beryllium!, DO NOT CUT INTO PLUGS unless you know they are NOT that type.

With the soldering iron warm/hot - CAREFULLY wipe the solder tip with a damp cotton cloth - then re-tin the tip with solder. It will work like NEW! Forget sawing up spark plugs and paper clips!

There's 3 minutes and 29 seconds I can never get back.

I can see like dislike ratio on my app, it has 3,000 likes 14,000 dislikes LOL

Should've had the iron plugged in before inserting the paperclip.

Completely waste of time clickbait, the iron he uses in the end is not even the same one he fits the tip into. All we needed to do was clean the tip in the first place. And using the electrode out of a spark plug wouldn't even work. They're made of tungsten, terrible. Tip for solder iron is usually made of iron or steel coated with copper and then tinned and wetted with solder. All he had to do was clean the tip and know how to use a soldering iron

@BPo75

9 ай бұрын

All needed was to keep the dang tip in contact with the wire strands instead of melting the solder on the tip and then trying to pour it over the strands.

@bradeaston6179

9 ай бұрын

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@bradeaston6179

9 ай бұрын

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@bradeaston6179

9 ай бұрын

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@bradeaston6179

9 ай бұрын

0😊0😊 😊😊😊😊😊

A ponta do ferro de solda vem com tratamento para que o fluxo tenha efetiva aderência na mesma. Pode ser que seja necessário uma limpeza com pano as vezes.

I want part of my life back now

@CreativeHacker7

3 ай бұрын

I hope the time saved using this hack makes up for the lost time! 🕰️.

The idea is to heat the wire and add solder to it. Clean your tip so it can transfer the heat to the wire then add solder to the wire.

@CreativeHacker7

9 ай бұрын

Okay 👌

@gregorydahl

8 ай бұрын

Sometimes solder is needed to contact and wait to conduct the heat to the wire

@hoppyhopster8498

6 ай бұрын

Many's the time I have cleaned the wire too, if needed. I never use solder as paint, you don't daub it on, you allow heat to make it flow.

clean the soldering iron tip!!!! & use some rosin flux

The trickiest part is finding the piece of the spark plug that you just nipped off

@CreativeHacker7

3 ай бұрын

The trickiest part is finding the piece of the spark plug that you just nipped off... 😅 But once you master it, the soldering iron trick can save you a lot of time and hassle! 🔥.

Just use a stick welder. Solders everything together instantly. Better than a broken sparkplug, obviously someone isnt firing on all cylinders. Maybe because their down a plug.

Waste of a spark plug.

I think the creator of this channel has an allergy to common sense, optimization, and good old flux paste which would take him less than 1 second to apply and would give you results as opposed to eff all in the video

I like that so much effort was done to just use a completely different iron in the end. Even if you did end up using the same iron you took off and threw away the same tip. Good to see the incredible knowledge of today’s generation at work, rocket science has come a long way!

very simple way.

Bad idea, first off the only problem with the original tip is oxidation. Simply clean and tin it with solder and it would work just fine. Next, this hack will shorten the life of the element. This is a ceramic element and is fairly fragile. So wedging somthing on one side of it like that, puts a lot of physical stress on it. (At about 2:51 it sounds like you snapped it.) Even if the tip needs replaced, the ones this uses aren't that expensive anyway.

@CreativeHacker7

9 ай бұрын

Really interesting 🤔

why waste your time making that? Try cleaning the bit often and pre tin the tip before you start. All you needed to do was twist the wire and learn how to solder.

@CreativeHacker7

9 ай бұрын

Okay, I’ll do it in the my next video !

Wouldn't it be a lot easier if you just properly cleaned and tinned your soldering iron tip like you're supposed to before using it?

I want 3 minutes + of my life back!

How comes at the end of the video you use a solder with two screws to hold the tip? Initial solder iron does not the have the tightening screws

Głupich nie sieją sami się rodzą.

maybe try cleaning or replacing your tips when the solder starts dripping off of it and not sticking to anything. try flux and a wet sponge

I bet if the original tip had been cleaned with sandpaper or steel wool, fluxed and tinned, it would have been just like brand new!

@CreativeHacker7

3 ай бұрын

Maybe next time I'll give the sandpaper and flux a try! Thanks for the tip! 🔥

I co to ma byc ?

If you want to avoid this remember: ALWAYS clean the tip of the soldering iron on a wet sponge after powering it off. Soldering tin contains flux, which helps the soldering process, but erodes the treatment on the soldering tip, if its left on the tip for some time. If your tip is damaged just replace it (it will cost around 5-10$), then remember to clean it every time...your tip will last for many many years, promised.

@Lindenbum

6 ай бұрын

Rosen core flux is safe. Plumbing flux is acid based bad for wiring.

Descrição deveria ser: *Transforme o ferro de solda em ferro de solda, tendo bastante trabalho e sem nenhuma melhoria* 👍

Jeez that iron was murdered. I feel a little better every time I manage to find someone with worse soldering skills than I have.

Hi, I didn't understand the whole "advantage", please explain more. Thanks in advance.

@CreativeHacker7

10 ай бұрын

if you have a bad tip, you can use a broken candle ! Thank for the question!

@SinergiaAlUnisono

10 ай бұрын

ah ok cool !!, thx @@CreativeHacker7

Why would anyone do this? You might as well take a nail and do the same thing! Clean the original tip and you'll be better off than trying to modify a soldering iron that didn't need it! This is not creative at all...

Some people need to take a bath with their toaster. 🤦‍♂️

This is how some engineers get degrees.

Not worth the time! It took say an hour to make the tip the cost is three times your hourly wage, not to mention the cost of a brand new spark plug... If you properly took care of the tip it would not solder so horribly. Also conical tips do not work well when tinning wires.

I can't wait for the video where he puts a man on the moon.

LOL as soon as the NON -US power plug was shown I new this was another, eastern rig-it video!!!

Pop rivet would have accomplished the same task

The solution for problems I dont have 🙂

@CreativeHacker7

2 ай бұрын

Great point! This hack may not solve all problems, but it sure does come in handy for DIY projects 🔧🔥.

so many of these clickbait videos but we still watch incase we connect an idea for that flux compositor engine fuel system xd Cheers

I'm just amazed that you made this video, edited it, watched it and then still thought it was a good idea to post it.

Título: *COMO ALTERAR O FERRO DE SOLDA ATOA* (Utilizando um prego, pedaço de fio de cobre, qualquer metal... *Ou uma vela de iguinição para dificultar o trabalho* )

Making a soldering iron out of a soldering iron ummm got it

" Honey, have you seen my last of the paperclips ? Also call the repairshop...the car won't start."🤔

thats 3 min of my life ill never get back

Yep clean soldering iron tip and tin then solder with flux

With and without Flux 😂

I have no sparkplug in my diesel engine. What to do now? I have a warmpump and sunpannels, but no wife. So i shave my grass with the boiler of my grandpa.

Cheaper to buy a fine tip soldering iron. ??????

After watching this... you will fail your IQ test.

@CreativeHacker7

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome to try out this innovative soldering technique! 💡🔧

@harlinwall9367

3 ай бұрын

I'd rather use that soldering pen on my eyes, to prevent myself from needlessly watching another useless video!

You need a sturdier tip - and perhaps sturdier soldering iron - to that heavy gauge wire; wrong from the start. Like someone argued: now you can't mow your lawn.

A solution to a non-existent problem.

This is one of those rare video ......... where the numer of dislikes exceeds the number of likes.

@CreativeHacker7

9 ай бұрын

😅 it’s life

Every criticism noted and find many definitely helpful , however I think the point is to show more of an out of the box way of thinking or variance towards an approach etc not necessarily any specific materials or a "proper" technique ... basically an avenue towards different possibility

Las puntas en cuanto se contaminan no puedes soldar ,tenga la punta que sea

Learning how to solder should be your 1. Consirn.

The price of a single spark plug doesn’t justify this when you can get a set of tips for 10 bucks

Some people on youtube make entertaining and/or useful content... but then you got the "life hackers"

I used to clean the iron when the tin was over heated and very runny actually with a shake to put new one (like samurai warriors did with their katanas. Lol). After finishing the job and before unpluging it I scratched the tip with a cutter.

How to ruin two perfectly good things at once while still creating inferior tinning.

I am worried for future generations.

Outro Título bom: *PERCA TEMPO COMIGO* assistindo e depois mais ainda fazendo

Io ho messo un iniettore al posto della candela ed ho fatto delle splendide saldature ad acetilene

We are not that dumb except for watching this video

Where is the guy who wears his hat backwards, who fixes forklifts, talks sht on people not using tools correctly at... He would have a field day with this one

So breaking a $4 spark plug and mangling a paper clip somehow is a smart hack for replacing a 70 cent soldering iron tip... Genius. 😂

Só lixar a ponta do ferro como você fez aí kkk

tinning the tip could help too

He is fucking with you guys 🤣👌

There's 3 minutes of my life that I'm unlikely to get back. Why didn't you just clean the original tip?

Nice idea! I will have to try it on the pencil irons I have. My Jeep won't mind running on 5 cylinders right? :)

Was für ne geile Nummer... danke für den Tipp und LG. aus HH

So you use a spark plug to understand how to solder? Lol

Thanks for showing everyone how to solder incorrectly.

turn the heat down on that soldering. Swap to copper tips and you are golden.

@CreativeHacker7

Ай бұрын

Turned down the heat and switched to copper tips, thanks for the tip!👍✨

How to create a problem in the first place

@CreativeHacker7

3 ай бұрын

Creating innovative solutions can sometimes lead to unexpected challenges, but it's all part of the learning process! 🔥🔧

My algorithm is fu..d again

At least I'm not the only one that noticed this guy doesn’t know how to solder

Three years later…

I knew I'd regret this

You turned your soldering iron into... a soldering copper?

Use the sandpaper to clean the original tip and re-tin it with solder, save the cost of a spark plug and lots of unnecessary mucking about..