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How to clean and re tin your soldering iron
I was skimming through Instructables yesterday when I came across an article on how to "restore" your soldering iron tip. I almost spit my drink on the computer when the author reccomended chucking your tip into a drill and using sandpaper to clean it up.
That's is the fastest way to destroy the tip. Let me show you the correct way to do it, no power tools are required.