Recommended · for beginners
How to clean and re tin your soldering iron
Why people recommend it
A short, practical guide to reviving an oxidised soldering iron tip, regularly pointed out to beginners whose solder will no longer stick to the iron.
Watch for: a badly blackened tip may still refuse to tin
In their words
So I follow the instructions in this video:
robert chen on electronics.stackexchange.com, Nov 2019. CC BY-SA.
