Hello,
I was just wondering if anybody knew what material was used as a catalyst inside a soldering tip
basically I had a look at one of my tips and it doesnt glow like it used to,evidently the catalyst has either burned away or been expended. its a metal tip with mesh and inside the mesh there seems to be a small ammount of wire wool looking substance, im guessing this is the catalyst for the butane..
now rather than buying new tips, i thought it would be simply cheaper to source the substance if available, and just replace the mesh..
there seems to be only a tiny ammount in there, not sure if this is because its spent or its originally small
Anybody had any experience with this? are there any other things that you can replace it with.
thanks in advance.
I was just wondering if anybody knew what material was used as a catalyst inside a soldering tip
basically I had a look at one of my tips and it doesnt glow like it used to,evidently the catalyst has either burned away or been expended. its a metal tip with mesh and inside the mesh there seems to be a small ammount of wire wool looking substance, im guessing this is the catalyst for the butane..
now rather than buying new tips, i thought it would be simply cheaper to source the substance if available, and just replace the mesh..
there seems to be only a tiny ammount in there, not sure if this is because its spent or its originally small
Anybody had any experience with this? are there any other things that you can replace it with.
thanks in advance.