/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2671256
>it's some store branded likely rando chink oem thing but it's designed as a heater coil around long (like several inches) removable tips that are more or less just a long slug of plated copper. the tip is held in with a single screw that just presses it in and friction does it.
So just a simple tip that is basically copper wire with weird shape on the end. You can definitely buy these on aliexpress, or even make yourself out of copper wire of suitable thickness.
>however, i'm doing stuff mostly with consumer electronics repair/mods so i feel a chisel tip would be easier to handle and slightly more versatile than the kinda dull pencil tip.
I suggest you just to bend the tip into J hook shape, as with this you can solder THT and SMD pretty easy.
>if i have spare lead and lots of flux lying around could i just dunk it in straight up blobs of molten lead or something?
Lead doesn't stick to copper. You need tin in the alloy in order to tin the copper.