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Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: 00g on July 27, 2005, 10:13:00 PM: I'm really tempted to give it a shot?

I'm just looking for input.......
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: Mjkthirdeye on July 27, 2005, 10:24:00 PM: Yes I have one. They are good for big wire to wire open area soldering jobs but I wouldn't even think about using it on any small circuitry such as an xbox. The tip is split ended making it so that once its bridged it sends electric pulses down through the tip heating the item that is going to be soldered. Therefore you run the risk of stray EMPs running through the circuitry. The tip is also huge and hard to workwith unless in an open area.

Good for Car Stereo wiring and such...
Bad for any small job where space is limited and just abount any PCB work

I wouldn't recommend it unless you just want a portable easy to work with wire splicing soldering iron, but for that purpose it works magically.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: SICKdimension on July 27, 2005, 10:57:00 PM: I'll sell you mine for $1. It's a horrible device. Get a real soldering iron.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: networkBoy on July 27, 2005, 11:00:00 PM: QUOTE(SICKdimension @ Jul 28 2005, 07:08 AM)
I'll sell you mine for $1. It's a horrible device. Get a real soldering iron.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: Mjkthirdeye on July 27, 2005, 11:03:00 PM: QUOTE(networkBoy @ Jul 28 2005, 12:11 AM)
That just about says it all.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: FSUNolez336 on July 28, 2005, 12:56:00 AM: you really wanna sell it for a dollar? lol
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: aepuppetmaster on July 28, 2005, 01:15:00 AM: i tried it and like other posts say it is shit, the tip is to big to be used for andthing percise (like modding) and for me it was rediculusly dificult to get it to even solder (bridge the electrodes). i went into trying it thinking how easy the comercial made it look and i tried it and it took like 5 minutes to solder a fuckin test wire and npot even a good solder at that. if u see this on a table, just turn around and walk away.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: Alex548 on July 28, 2005, 01:19:00 AM: I bought one also... it was a piece of crap. I tried to use it to remove solder from the LPC on a 1.0 board. The gap in the tip is so wide that I couldn't get it working. The damn tip ended up breaking and I threw the rest of it away. I'll stick to my Radio Shack soldering iron.

**Alex**
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: FSUNolez336 on July 28, 2005, 01:20:00 AM: how many watts is a good "XBox" soldering gun?
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: SICKdimension on July 28, 2005, 05:42:00 AM: The best part of the cold heat soldering iron was the free wire stripper it came with, which lasted about 2 weeks, then that broke too. The iron is extremely dangerous for electronics. I tried it once to do a quick LED solder, and it lit up the LED! Not good. Then the tip broke, and I don't even know when. Even when it did work, it wouldn't melt the solder.

Grab yourself a 25W RadioShack iron for $8. That one will last at least a few weeks.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: Bogus8 on July 28, 2005, 11:40:00 AM: My neighbor, who constantly buys crap w/o consulting me first bought one of these peices of garbage... what I did find funny/scary was it lit up an LED if you put the legs on each side of the split... with that much juice I can't imagine it's safe to use on microchips and sensative stuff. Is kind of funny though.

OH, and the nifty free wire strippers he got... I was making fun of those and he was like "no, they work watch..." then he grabs some 16 gauge speaker wire and tries to strip them, the thing crumbles in his hand! I was in stitches... I said "well at least when you return that piece of crap soldering iron you get to keep that cool free gift just for trying!"
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: Chancer on July 28, 2005, 12:36:00 PM: 15 watts is too low powered. I ahve done chapter and verse on why and what to get . Search the newbie section under soldering and filter by my name to read why.
The cold heat is truly rubbish and this comes up once a week.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: CrystalXBOX on July 29, 2005, 12:33:00 AM: I fell for the cold-crap also and wire stipper WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! hehehe what crap! MAYBE i'd use it outside if I felt such an urge, but to be honest it's more of a pain in the a$$ to get soldering that it's not even worth it! Total C-R-A-P! Weller all the way for me!
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: aepuppetmaster on July 29, 2005, 01:06:00 AM: also if u look close on the comercial, the guy is soldering like a high volt, no sensitive garage opener thing. not to mention he is solering a thick wire onto a like 1 cm^2 contact.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: 00g on July 29, 2005, 02:28:00 AM: QUOTE(aepuppetmaster @ Jul 29 2005, 03:17 AM)
also if u look close on the comercial, the guy is soldering like a high volt, no sensitive garage opener thing. not to mention he is solering a thick wire onto a like 1 cm^2 contact.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: Bogus8 on July 29, 2005, 11:45:00 AM: QUOTE(00g @ Jul 29 2005, 03:39 AM)
Wow. I guess you guys really hate it.
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: HumanMan42 on July 29, 2005, 11:51:00 AM: actually, i really like the colheat. i used it to put on my modchip, and it worked very well. i just put the pin in the middle, put some solder on the pid, it melted onto it, took the coldheat away from the pin, done and done. the wire soldering was easy as well. as for smaller jobs, like the back of the mobo (the lan led and whatnot), that was a pain in the ass.

i want to get a new one because my old one broke (i stepped on it!)

i would recomend anyone to buy it, its good for alot of jobs, just not tiny, or ones where only a slim soldering pen would fit

humanman
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: Bogus8 on July 29, 2005, 12:01:00 PM
Title: Cold Heat Soldering Iron
Post by: ChInEsE ChIcKeN on July 31, 2005, 12:43:00 PM: yeah i have one i dont really like it that much because it it cant really do fine points and plus your iron needs ot be at an angle in order for it to work....