• Many different soldering tips are available to suit the specific needs of different projects.board image by martini from Fotolia.com
  
  Located in Shingle Springs, California, Xytronic manufactures soldering iron stations, accessories and safety equipment for soldering. Xytronic sells its products through distributors and online vendors.
  Xytronic offers many different styles of soldering iron tips for both through-hole and surface-mount components, including lead-free products. It also offers several styles of de-soldering iron tips.
  
  

Conical Tips

• Conical tips are usually the standard tip style that comes with Xytronic soldering irons. They offer a fine tip that makes working in a small area easy. Conical tips also work well with small connectors and pins.
  
  

Blade Tips

• Xytronic offers several blade sizes and angles for its soldering irons. Blade tips share a similar shape with chisel tips but are much thinner and include an angled edge rather than a straightedge. Blade tips come in a variety of angles, but the most common angle is 45 degrees. Their thinness allows them to slide under or alongside surface mount chips easily.
  
  

Chisel Tips

• Chisel tips look similar to flathead screwdriver tips. They offer a wider surface area that works well at distributing heat evenly over a larger area, which makes them ideal for larger connectors and nodes. They might not fit into narrower areas on a board without causing melting or overheating to nearby components.
  
  

Tweezer Tips

• Xytronic manufactures several styles of tweezer tips to accommodate both surface-mount and through-hole components. Tweezers apply heat to the connections on the edge of a component which enables quick removal of the chip as it loosens from the board to prevent the solder from reconnecting the component to the board. Tweezer tips also reduce the chance of overheating the board because of the lower amount of time the heated tip touches the board.
  
  

De-soldering Tips

• Xytronic makes de-soldering tips for soldering stations and guns as well as independent de-soldering tools. De-soldering tips suction out solder from connectors and sockets on circuit boards.