Coldheat soldering

[rich 36]

Anyone used one of the little soldering irons.

What sort of work, is it capable of?

Just PC boards or car wiring alarms immobilisers etc

[Plotloss]

The coldheat pro seems to be fairly heavy duty.

£15 too, think I may finally chuck my butane job.

[rich 36]

Mine does up to 1mm solder, but struggles a bit with it I must say.

tried tinning some random bits of wire, but it seems a bit wanting

[TheExcession]

Plotloss said:

The coldheat pro seems to be fairly heavy duty. £15 too, think I may finally chuck my butane job.

Really? - I can't see how this thing has much capacity, I mean in terms of power (Watts).

I've got an old Weller 24V/AC 45 Watt TCP jobbie for years and it's seen me through just about everything I've ever needed to do, and occaisionally I find it lacks the grunt to get out enough heat, especially if you want to solder to plate metal.

But 45W - that's a huge amount of power - how can something that's running off AA batteries even come close?

[rich 36]

Took it back,
after several attempts at tinning wire using only the power of thought for heat,
I concede defeat,
and pay a bit more for a butane powered device,
that certainly will solder.

[polus]

I can recommend Metcal soldering irons. Probably abit overkill though