Anyone soldered with this?

[scaarmor]

I recently bought one of those "cold heat" soldering irons- the ones on tv. Has anyone tried these on sabers yet? I found the tips have 2 different pieces-1+ and 1-. These two halves are affixed to a central piece that is none conductive, so when something bridges the gap and touches both pieces it instantly heats and when nothing is bridging it instantly cools(so you cant burn anything). I thought it might work well as you dont have to wait for it to heat/cool. And the booklet says you dont need a tip clean sponge because solder cannot stick to the tip. It also says you cad desolder with it...

Anyone who has experience with these please let me know your verdict.

Cain

***It is now that we battle.When you die, await my arrival in the afterlife where we will battle again.Perhaps there you may have the ability to defeat me,but not here,not now,not this day.So let us part with words and embrace the blade.***

[xwingband]

For electronics they work just fine. They may lack if you need to do super fine things though because you cant get the two prongs to touch metal without srewing up another solder.

The main disadvantage is the inability to solder things that don't conduct elestricity well. Fot my uses as an architectural student where we solder raw metals together the "cold heat" irons are unusable.

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[suit_man]

i bought one and returned it the next day. it was an absolute piece of garbage. i touched the tip against the wires and one half broke off. i would not recommend using one.

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[Strydur]

Bought one and it didnt work worth a damn. Later heard that it doesnt work well with certain solders.

Tim
The Custom Saber Shop

[TorLinWaDur]

i have a "cold heat" didn't solder for the wiring of blade portion, works fine with eletronics, like Xwing said. So, I just gave it to someone else. lol. right after I bought a real deal soldering iron.

laters

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[scaarmor]

Well...After reading your posts, I whipped out mine. With the typical thoughts of "Well,maybe they didnt try this or that". After much "attempting" I have come to the same conclusion- it doesnt work...

Guess I will have to return it and get one of the other ones I wanted- A variable pencil tip style. Thanx for the help all of you. And sorry I wasted your time.

Cain

***It is now that we battle.When you die, await my arrival in the afterlife where we will battle again.Perhaps there you may have the ability to defeat me,but not here,not now,not this day.So let us part with words and embrace the blade.***

[Jedi Ranger]

LOL - I bought one over a year ago when I was first getting into building my EL lightsabers. It is junk, especially when compared to a real soddering iron.

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[GFORCE13]

i bought one unfortunately still have it makes a nice paper weight but for soldering give me either my Weller Gun or Iron.[]

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[WeirdoTransvestite]

Mine didn't work either. I lost it somewhere, kept the wire stripper though, they're ok. I'd just rather wait 5 minutes for my soldering iron to heat up. Works faster than the cold heat too.

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