{"id":719,"date":"2026-09-24T10:26:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/?p=719"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:22:29","slug":"turning-off-the-soldering-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/electronics-workshop\/operation-electronics-workshop\/719\/turning-off-the-soldering-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning off the soldering station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-station-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-726 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-station-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-station-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-station-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-station-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-station.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turn the power switch on the front of the soldering station off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Place the soldering iron back into its holder. Don&#8217;t worry about wiping any excess solder off before you do this, the excess will protect the tip ready for the next use. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-plug-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-724 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-plug-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-plug-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-plug-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/soldering-plug.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turn off the wall socket for the soldering plug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will turn off the fume extraction, so don&#8217;t do this if someone else is using the other soldering station in the pair!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clean up any remaining snipped leads or ends of wire before you leave.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn the power switch on the front of the soldering station off. Place the soldering iron back into its holder. Don&#8217;t worry about wiping any excess solder off before you do this, the excess will protect the tip ready for the next use. Turn off the wall socket for the soldering plug. This will turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[239,238],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operation-electronics-workshop","tag-electronics","tag-soldering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}