When preparing equipment for soldering, after you clean and dress the soldering tip, you heat and tin it with what?

After cleaning and dressing the soldering tip, it's essential to heat and tin it with solder. Tinning the tip involves melting a small amount of solder onto the heated tip, which helps to create a good thermal and electrical connection when soldering components together. This process aids in heat transfer during the soldering process and prevents oxidation, ensuring that the tip remains effective and provides a reliable surface for soldering tasks.

Using solder for tinning also helps to protect the tip from damage and prolongs its lifespan. It forms a thin layer that can make subsequent soldering tasks easier and improve the quality of the joint being created. While flux plays an important role in preparing the surfaces to be soldered, and wire might refer to the soldering wire itself, only solder effectively achieves the purpose of tinning the soldering tip. Gasket compound is unrelated to the soldering process and does not contribute to the preparation of soldering tools.