An easy test for fir poorly made or counterfeit tips is to put a magnet to them; bad tips will be magnetic at the far back end of the tip whereas good quality tips will only be magnetic at the pointy end where the solder goes ( I posted a video about this on my channel recently). I don't know where you got the idea that cheap, poorly performing tips are made of or coated with aluminum oxide, because in my experience the crappy tips are made of iron or steel and strongly attracted to a magnet along the entire length of the tip. Good quality tips are made of copper for efficient heat transfer but with several different plating materials, and they MUST be plated with iron at the pointy business end *only* because solder and flux would easily dissolve away bare copper and the tips would have a very short lifespan. The rest of the copper tip is usually plated with chrome or some other shiny metal that resists solder and will not wet to it. The extreme pointy end of the tip, however, will be plated with iron because iron will "wet" to solder yet it resists the dissolving effects of flux and molten tin.
New subscriber here. After I got Ersa i CON PICO i never go back to gordak baku and other soldering irons. At least I learn to soldering on my old gordak soldering station and destroyed bunch of tips :D. Greetings from Bosnia.
An easy test for fir poorly made or counterfeit tips is to put a magnet to them; bad tips will be magnetic at the far back end of the tip whereas good quality tips will only be magnetic at the pointy end where the solder goes ( I posted a video about this on my channel recently). I don't know where you got the idea that cheap, poorly performing tips are made of or coated with aluminum oxide, because in my experience the crappy tips are made of iron or steel and strongly attracted to a magnet along the entire length of the tip. Good quality tips are made of copper for efficient heat transfer but with several different plating materials, and they MUST be plated with iron at the pointy business end *only* because solder and flux would easily dissolve away bare copper and the tips would have a very short lifespan. The rest of the copper tip is usually plated with chrome or some other shiny metal that resists solder and will not wet to it. The extreme pointy end of the tip, however, will be plated with iron because iron will "wet" to solder yet it resists the dissolving effects of flux and molten tin.
I think you've saved me. I'm a novice and thought the unresponsiveness of the soldering tips was my fault. Thank you.
Thanks for the knowledge
Man why did you stop uploading
I got a new job and it took some getting used to. I have a few videos waiting to be edited. Coming up soon. Thanks for asking mate.
holy grail of soldering,....you must use flux, even good tips suck without it. Yeah cheap tips suck
Absolutely true my friend 👍
Dude keep making videos. You have quite a bit of views
Try jbc c210/245 clones like jabe or something, it's doing it's job much better than these soldering stations
I will most definitely buy one of those, because they're very good for microsoldering. Thank you for the suggestion 😊
I agree. I wasted too much money
*promosm* 💖
New subscriber here. After I got Ersa i CON PICO i never go back to gordak baku and other soldering irons. At least I learn to soldering on my old gordak soldering station and destroyed bunch of tips :D. Greetings from Bosnia.
Thank you very much brother! New video on my T12 soldering station is coming up.
Greetings from Serbia neighbor ❤️
P.S. I subscribed back to you 😊
@@milanfixer Thank you.