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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Description: Several low melting point Indalloy® alloys are liquid at room temperature. These gallium-based alloys are non-toxic replacements for mercury. The gallium-based alloys have far lower vapor ...

When you learn to solder, you are warned about the pitfalls of creating a solder joint. Too much solder, too little solder, cold joints, dry joints, failing to “wet” the joint properly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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