Amazing Soldering Iron put to the Test - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2018, 02:56:10 am
content: It's time for the flame throwing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Yes, I know exactly what I'm doing here.)(Just look at the name printed on it...)

author: Gregg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2018, 03:08:57 am
content: AVE needs one of these

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2018, 05:32:55 am
content: Sex on a stick !

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2018, 05:46:52 am
content: Quote from: Bud on March 11, 2018, 05:32:55 amHelp, I can't stop laughing,,.,..j,jj.pok

author: djnz
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2018, 03:29:20 am
content: Did you see the comments? The video has made severalh people want to buy it!

author: GerryBags
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2018, 03:57:17 am
content: If you were desoldering a shed-load of turret mounted resistors, for example, I can see this being handy. You could have the solder sucker in one hand and the iron in the other, and if you need a bit of extra solder it's right there.

author: djnz
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2018, 04:29:55 am
content: Quote from: blueskull on March 12, 2018, 03:49:11 amThe problem I see is that it pushes a fixed length of the solder wire forward with every push of the trigger. This makes me call it more gimmicky than actually useful. Also, $20 is not exactly cheap for soldering irons - you can get far more useful things for $20.For less than $10 you can buy this:

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2018, 10:16:54 am
content: The idiot adjusts the solder feeder to hit the tip, not the work...

author: KL27x
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2018, 08:45:57 pm
content: ^ I noticed that. I thought maybe it was a good thing to feed the solder slightly off the tip. Then you could squeeze the solder between the joint and tip, like by simply using your hand-eye coordination. OTOH, every robotic soldering setup I have seen feeds the solder right onto the tip. But this is usually a huge bevel tip. A pointy tip with crude solder feed is going to have problems, since it will have a tendency to extremes, leaving either too much or too little solder on a joint and very little capability to remove bridges.I see this being a very useful tool for specific things. Sex on a stick, though? That is funny.

author: darrellg
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 13, 2018, 09:25:25 pm
content: The guy that came up with that must be a welder.

author: mikerj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2018, 11:04:12 pm
content: Quote from: djnz on March 12, 2018, 04:29:55 amThe amount of solder that gets pushed out depends on how far you squeeze the trigger (up to a limit of course). Looks reasonably controllable to me, though not a tool I'll be ordering any time soon.

author: KL27x
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2018, 11:25:30 pm
content: ^Yep. It's just the same way you would use a glue gun. Probably the same mechanics.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2018, 07:30:50 pm
content: Quote from: KL27x on March 13, 2018, 08:45:57 pmI assume those robots have been carefully calibrated to feed the solder onto a very, very specific spot where the solder forms a perfect thermal bridge to the joint, and either the flux core melts and drops where it needs to go, or the work has had flux applied prior. (I would also assume that in an automated production environment, that the parts were relatively free of oxides and contaminants.)This thing looks like it started out OK and then the fool adjusted it to apply solder halfway up the tip, far too high to be a good thermal bridge even. And the joints he makes with it show it: blobs of solder sitting on top of the pad, just like my first soldering attempts as an 8 year old with a radio shack 25W fire stick and zero training...

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 16, 2018, 09:48:19 pm
content: I guess it is time to get rid of my Hakko FX-951 and Metcal MX-500 and get 2 of these since I have a spool each of leaded and lead free solder.

author: leisergeist
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 19, 2018, 02:30:48 pm
content: China: Answering questions nobody asked!Maybe if you only have one arm or hand...