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Default "Cool Touch" Soldering Tool

Spam and also junk!

Right on both counts. I don't care how fast it heats the tiny
tip. I care how fast it heats the center pin of a PL-259 coax
connector, which it won't because there is no MASS or
POWER. No match for a Weller gas soldering iron which
will heat the connector in SECONDS and make a beautiful joint.


yeah i was really excited about this tool when i got one. junk. maybe
.... MAYBE .. it would be ok soldering circuit boards, maybe. but the
tip seems too wide for that, and you couldn't do any surface mount
stuff with it i don't think, or if you did it would be using techniques
i cannot yet imagine. as for soldering "regular stuff", nope, i melted
the plastic part that holds the point the very first time i used it.
that is, i melted the tool itself, destroyed, deceased. and when i was
busy melting the tool it never did get hot enough to melt the solder i
was trying to melt, all i was trying to do was solder a ground wire to
a ground strap i had installed in the truck, trivial job for any
soldering iron. the tool would melt a bead of solder which would
promptly roll off the ground wire like a little BB, but it wouldn't
melt the glob that i was trying to attach the wire to.