A soldering iron should have a feel and a grip that makes it easy to hold in your hand, as if it were a large pen. For electronics, you want a slim, needle-like tip to aid in getting the heat (and ...

In the 1800s and early 1900s soldering irons were still heated by flame. The large copper tips on the irons were slow to heat and would at best store heat for only a few minutes. It was not uncommon ...

In this guest blog post, taken from the Eurocircuits blog, Ben Verwaest considers whether hand-soldering can reach the same high quality result as reflow or wave soldering. In this guest blog post, ...

Ryobi, a brand owned by Techtronic Industries (which also manufactures Milwaukee) prides itself on making top-quality tools that can be used by everyone, from new homeowners to professional ...

If there is one tool every hardware hacker needs, it’s a good soldering setup. Soldering irons, heat guns, reflow ovens and the like make up the tools of the trade for building electronic circuits.

The general process of circuit board assembly goes like this: You order your PCBs. You also order your components. For surface mount components, you apply solder paste to the pads, put the components ...

Bannockburn, IL. The fifth annual IPC Hand Soldering World Championship at IPC APEX EXPO March 16-17 drew 10 competitors from around the world. Victors from IPC hand soldering competitions in ...

Hand-soldering a few PC boards is surprisingly popular given how many components come only in surface-mount technology (SMT) packages these days, especially when you consider just how small some of ...

Bannockburn, IL. In cooperation with productronica 2017, IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries held its Hand Soldering Competition at the trade fair in Munich earlier this month, with a ...