If you thought a soldering iron was just a hot metal stick that’s always too much hassle to drag out, plug in, and heat up, iFixit’s new FixHub is here to change your mind. In typical fashion ...

Double-sided tape is often recommended, but heat ruins the adhesive and SMD components like to stick to soldering iron tips. Since silicone tends to be heat resistant, it makes a decent material ...

That five-second heat-up time comes in handy ... but this one enables the smarts embedded in the Soldering Iron so you should stick with it. But I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to, because ...

Difficult jobs with tiny components or with large heat sinks can up the ... the solder will simply fail to stick. This doesn’t just apply to the soldering iron, or the solder itself.

For starters: the $80 iron comes with a heat-resistant ... make sure people want to be able to solder, instead of just being afraid of waving around a hot stick.” He says he’s “on a new ...

A soldering iron should have a feel and a grip that makes it easy to hold in your hand, as if it were a large pen. For electronics, you want a slim, needle-like tip to aid in getting the heat (and ...

I just happened to see a guy slam the Cold Heat soldering iron on a post on Craigslist. He took out the post just to warn people that it was junk. It works by having a four AA batteries connected ...

Out of the box, it’s set to heat up to 662 degrees Fahrenheit when plugged in. Unlike comparable portable soldering irons, you can’t adjust the goal temperature from the iron itself ...

It’s for a device called Cold Heat: a soldering iron that reportedly stays cool to the touch –- until it touches the metal you want to want to join with hot solder. When you’re finished ...

The cold heat soldering iron claims to be the world's first cordless, cool-touch soldering tool--it heats up to 800 degrees. In seconds? Does it really work? That's what we wanted to know.