He’s taken a ceramic housing from a redundant fuse holder, and mounted it on a metal frame to make a basic soldering iron holder into which the tip of his unregulated iron fits. To the ceramic ...

If you thought a soldering iron was just a hot metal stick that’s always too much hassle to drag out, plug in, and heat up, iFixit’s new FixHub is here to change your mind. In typical fashion ...

It’s secured in place with a screw-on metal collar to which ... This is a useful little iron, and easily coped with all the general purpose soldering we had to hand. The PCB packs what appears ...

This bonding metal, usually tin and lead, is called "solder." It comes as wire on a spool, heated to its melting point by an electric tool called a soldering iron (or soldering gun). Soldering is ...