These power the ceramic heating element, as well as provide the soldering iron handle access to the thermocouple that’s placed near the actual tip. With a simple diagram [Clive] explains how ...

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 ...

The small soldering iron comes with only one tip (0.062 mm ... When soldering a wire onto a control board, one pro move is to pre-tin the tip of the wire. Simply melt a bit of solder onto ...