Temperature-controlled soldering irons can be cheap, lightweight, and good. Pick any two of those attributes when you choose an iron, because you’ll never have all three. You might believe that this ...

Our commenteers have all said good things about the open-source TS100 soldering iron pencil: things like “it solders well”. But we’ve all got soldering irons that solder well. What possible extra ...

If it's mostly through-hole and not surface mount, i'd start with a decent iron (TS100 is fine to start with, or any of the combined tip+heater soldering iron stations) with a small and large ...

If you have a keen interest in electronics or are a do-it-yourself enthusiast, you absolutely need to have a few tools and accessories at your disposal at all times. One of them is a soldering iron.

Typical soldering tips have a copper core, plated with iron. The copper allows heat transfer, and the iron plating provides durability. Soldering is a joining process involving a filler metal that is ...