I know that soldering won’t be new to many of our readers, but everyone has to start sometime. Our hope is simple: that this new series of How-To’s will help inspire new and experienced ...

[Ted Yapo] shared a method of easily and conveniently soldering to aluminum, which depends on a little prep work to end up only slightly more complex than soldering to copper. A typical way to ...

Cutting copper usually creates these sharp-edged burrs, and they need to be removed for your soldering to work properly.

The iron comes with a sturdy stand to hold the hot iron during use, a spool for the solder, and both a sponge and a brass sponge for cleaning the iron’s tip. Its quick heat-up time and ...

Even when cars are full of complex electrics, a soldering iron is a handy tool. It can be used for basic electrical repairs, adding accessories and, with practice, ‘stitching’ broken plastic ...

American Hakko Products Inc. recently introduced the FX-971 benchtop soldering station. This compact, 100-watt station offers ...

Now it’s creating the portable soldering iron to end all soldering irons. Here are our thoughts. iFixit says it’s time to free the soldering iron from the clutches of the wall outlet ...

Sn/Pb solders have generally disappeared from plumbing applications in favor of silver alloys, but remain in use in electrical and electronics manufacturing, gas lines, and brass soldering. Lead-free ...

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