Pre-tinning the wires or components (coat with a thin layer of solder) or fills the wires or connector contacts with solder so you can easily melt them together.

Tinning the Tip — Once you've got a clean soldering iron tip, there's one more thing to do before you can pack your soldering iron away to use another day, and that's tinning the tip. The goal here is ...

Emil Otto is aiming at joining steel, stainless steel, brass and copper objects below 450°C with three tin-based soft-soldering pastes. “The soldering and tinning pastes do not require zinc chloride, ...

Maintaining a pristine soldering iron tip requires strategic care to prevent oxidation and ensure seamless heat transfer. Regular tinning, controlled temperature regulation, and flux application ...