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

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 ...

[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 ...

Hand soldering of surface mount components is a bread-and-butter task for anyone working with electronics in 2024. So many devices are simply no longer available in the older through-hole formats ...

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 ...

Use a reaming tool to remove the sharp burrs you'll probably find on the outside and inside of the cut ends of the pipe. Cutting copper usually creates these sharp-edged burrs, and they need to be ...

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 ...

Robert Feranec, a hardware design engineer and educator who runs an excellent YouTube channel focusing on electronics, has a fascinating and satisfying video showing how soldering works up-close ...

Double union ends with plain bore for solvent cement jointing. Attachment Type = Socket. Pipe Diameter = 1/2in. Body Material = PVC-U. Connection = 1/2 in Socket. Pressure Rating = 10bar. Flow Factor ...

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Plumbing application where copper pipes are joined together. Brazing Used for joining steel by melting a brass rod on the hot steel. As the brass melts, it forms a joint. Brazing is a slow and ...