New soldering iron got oxidised after 2 minutes of being plugged in
I bought a cheap soldering iron, and after about 10 seconds of plugging it in, it started producing fumes and the tip turned yellow. When I tested it, it didn’t melt the solder at all.
I looked it up and saw that some fumes can be normal the first time due to factory coating burning off. So I unplugged it, then plugged it back in again and waited about 2 minutes.
But it started producing fumes again, and the color got really dark (brown) but this time it could barely melt the solder(still really weak). Is this normal? Am I just stupid?
u/youssif6683 — 1 day ago