Remove dried hot glue from soldering iron

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I was experimenting with hot glue, and decided to use my soldering iron as a heat source (please don’t be mad I’m sorry) and there is on thinnesh layer of hot glue on the iron. I tried scraping it off with a knife which worked in some places but not others. No direct access to sandpaper.
 
Solution


Does your soldering iron have a removable tip?
If you can't get ALL of the glue off, toss it and replace the tip.

USAFRet

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Does your soldering iron have a removable tip?
If you can't get ALL of the glue off, toss it and replace the tip.
 
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audiospecaccts

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I would put it in a freezer for a while then take it out and see if it will peel off afterwards.
you could use a un-coated brass pot scratch-er or brass wool for soldering stations and scrape it off with a hot iron, then re-tin with solder and repeat.