What do you use for cleaning your tips

[Deathwish]

on offer from cpc

http://cpc.farnell.com/multicore-solder/ttc-lf/15g-lead-free-tip-tinner-cleaner/dp/SD0162206?ost=sd0162206

[SteveyG]

on offer from cpc

http://cpc.farnell.com/multicore-solder/ttc-lf/15g-lead-free-tip-tinner-cleaner/dp/SD0162206?ost=sd0162206

That's the stuff you should never use, unless the tip is already beyond use. It kills the plating on modern tips.

edit: actually in the description:

Multicore TTC-LF is a speed and effective product for cleaning and re-tinning de-wetted soldering irons that cannot be re-tinned by sponges, pads or rosin-cored solder wire.
Lead free
Rapidly re-tins badly oxidised soldering irons

[AF6LJ]

Look here at 1:20

Is he actually serious? What a f**king waste of time.

That is like watching those videos that teach you how to do it the NASA way.
Although when you see someone with a NASA card do it in real life it goes much faster.

[Augustus]

That's the stuff you should never use, unless the tip is already beyond use. It kills the plating on modern tips.

The worst are the ones with added abrasives (usually sand), they should really only be used as an absolute last resort 

[Sbampato12]

I've been using wellers tips by 5 to 6 years, the only thing I use is the wet sponge that came with the soldering stations.
I have non constant use, 3 to 4 times a week, some times big boards, some times just replacing a component. I never changed the tips yet...

I read somewhere else that the 'news' tips (from good companies) came with some kinds of plating, that wear out if you use something more hard. Because that I keept the wet sponge.
Always wet, and daily cleaned after work. If I had to choose another, I would go with the brass, because it is softer than other metals...

[AF6LJ]

I also use nothing more than a wet sponge.
Always have, that could be why I have had my tips for decades. (the old Weller types with the alloy plug in the end.) I remember being taught to never use a metal object on a hot soldering tip.
I have worked for a few two way radio shops (two small ones and one big one) I have always found the soldering irons that I started out with to have trashed tips, I would get new tips and never have to replace them.

My thermal strippers...
That is a different issue those tips get chewed up and usually won't last more than three years or so.