Using 2 Soldering Irons at Once? | Soldering Iron Tweezers
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Dual wielding soldering irons. Who would have thought?
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I originally had a $15 soldering iron. When I started modding everything left and right, I bought i newer nicer soldering iron. Instead of buying these tweezers, I use my two soldering irons to remove capacitors. I put flux on both sides and add solder to the larger ones as well. Super easy and can replace all 4 capacitors on a gba in under 5 minutes.
Tried these and indeed, to some extent they work. But for about the same price you can get a cheapo chinesium hot air station which, in my personal opinion was a life changer. Loved the content though
I appreciate you trying the dual iron and sharing with us. Good video. Ive been trying to use two irons like chop sticks...so... Only idea i have ; is the cube solder newer than the SP? I hope you get it dialed in 🤘
A tip you can always just use two soldering irons and do the same thing.
Usually, you have to run those really hot due to the points being slim or "skinny." At first, you were struggling for 2 reasons the temp not being hot enough, and #2 low thermal mass. Usually, when soldering or desoldering, you have to account for the size of the pad or the "work," and where its located, such as a ground plain, they tend to absorb more heat. But with tools like these, since the tips are really small, it won't be as effective as, let's say, a k tip or a chisel that could transfer more heat. Also its built off of the hakko technology which some years back it was first of its class but now with the cartridge style based tips like the jbc and the ts100 you've got those tend to heat up much faster and more efficiently. So, in theory, 2 irons can do the same job versus the tweezers, which some pros actually use & preferred it that way. Always remember that the higher the amount in watts, the iron is rated, and the better it will perform. I know people have budgets but I always recommend to get something around 90 to 100w to cover them for most senarios and won't have to struggle so much with tough grounds and it makes desoldering as well as soldering a lot easier.
This is a genius idea of a tool in theory. I’m sure a more expensive one would do a better job but this one is still cool nonetheless! This may be a dumb question but do you think it might heat both sides a little more evenly if you hold both sides of the iron pinched together before you use it on the capacitors or do you think it wouldn’t make much of a difference?
I don’t think it would make a difference. I think it’s just a cheap one haha
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It's a pinsir pen
you never tried the plier twist method? works for my 100% of the time without a pulled pad and not special tools required
I’ve tried it but it didn’t work well for me
@@JakeSimmons64 just finished re capping a SNES and a few cube drives. Can't recommend it enough.
Don't focus on the temp it is saying it's at. It's made in China, any numbers provided aren't important. If our solder isn't melting we turn up the heat. Hot tweezers. Long skinny ends with very little thermal mass so obviously the temp has to be turned up higher than your cartridge based miniware. The idea is to use those on all those little capacitors and resistors and not the giant and stuff you can do with an iron.
Be more generous with the flux, get the your tips even, and if the solder isn't melting apply more heat. Ignore that temp reading, where is it reading the temp from. It's a sub $40 set of hot tweezers, how about we aim for more realistic expectations.
They are giant chungus things but they are super cheap and if you use them more often you get used to them.
You probably wanted hot tweezers for a while right and then you saw these that are so cheap how could you not buy them right? Late night Internet shopping . Keep using them, you do get used to them just always get your tips dead even before you turn them on and use some pliers to tighten that shit down. The stand doesn't get hot if you put the irons in right it's plastic to metal. Yeah they are huge. lol very cheap though and Yihua is ok. I do have one Yihua station that needs new irons pretty often but that's my fault because I leave it on for a day or two at a time. Oops. Replacement iron is under $20 so not the end of the world.
You aren't going to have a Northridge Fix experience with these but you also didn't pay $200-300.