I'm looking at getting some new tips for my Weller WMRP for micro soldering. I currently only own a 0.8mm conical tip, which leaves a lot to be desired when soldering pins etc. I'm probably going to get a bent chisel 0.8mm (RT5), for better access in crowded areas, but what else do people have as their favorites?
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Re: Best tips for Weller WMRP?
No one? Could also be for other soldering systems, its just the shape of the tip that would be interesting to know. -
Re: Best tips for Weller WMRP?
In general, conical shaped tips are terrible. They are too thin to have decent heat transfer, they can't keep hot once touching the work unless you set the iron's temperature way high and even then it's a disaster.
If you're soldering larger through-hole headers and such, use the biggest tip possible. WMRP is a micro-iron, I would not expect it to do everything.
we talked about tips a lot here: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=67800Comment
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Re: Best tips for Weller WMRP?
i love conical tips, if you cant get the heat then your not using a cartridge system
for the speacial hard to reach places i use a curved conical,
and for big cleanups with desoldering braid i use a knife-tipComment
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Hi,
I have soldering station ZD-8916 and I only see like 6 different soldering tips being offered, eg. by tme: https://www.tme.eu/ie/en/details/zd-...er-peak/n9-26/
Very limited variety, I'm missing a chisel ones, it just doesn't exist.
I thought to myself everything is available in china, but they don't seem to be using the same nomenclature. Searching in aliexpress or temu for N9 tip doesn't find anything.
Is there perhaps equivalent type to N9 I should be searching for?
Or is my soldering station that weird and I just shot myself into a foot?...12-02-2025, 05:45 AM -
Someone gave me two of these 100/140w weller soldering guns. Yes, I know it runs current right through the tip, but might be nice to really get some heat into some big wires that need to be soldered.
So, worth a place on the bench, or chuck it?
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