So I've been soldering for a while now and don't really consider myself a beginner, but there's one aspect of soldering irons/stations which I do not really understand, and those are the sharp small conical tips.
For example, I'm currently mostly using a Pace ADS200 station, and I'm mostly using various types of chisel tips, however, for very small tip sizes, the only option seem to be conical tips. For example, here's a 0.2 mm tip that I have:
https://paceworldwide.com/1128-conical-020mm#overviewHowever, I with conical tips, I always have the issue, that when they start out, they're OK:
However, when I wet them with solder, the solder moves away from the tip a bit upwards, and then creates a ball, like here:
After that, the tip of the iron is mostly dry. Therefore, when I try to initially make contact with a pin, heat isn't being transferred quickly, and when I try to add external solder, it also tends to first make a contact with the ball of solder and not flow down the tip towards the pin I'm trying to solder. The wider part of the tip is probably hotter than the narrower end of the tip, which would then make the solder flow there.
So are there conical tips, which tend to come with irons by default, all just bad design which doesn't want to die, or am I missing something?
Also, I used the 0.2 mm tip in this example, but in my experience, larger tip tend to have same issues.