| Cold Heat Soldering Iron. Anyone use it? - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| CangDai |
| ya used it for about 30mins then returned it. it heats up pretty good, but i was using it for about 30mins straight and the tip shatter into pieces. i wouldnt recommend buying it. |
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| newaccorddriver |
| i bought it when it was on sale for i think $10 or something. it isnt really worth the money paid. it takes a while to get used to hot to use it, but its not meant for any moderate sized job at all like remote starter install or anything. for smaller jobs it should do the trick though, but even then, its not that good at it |
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| XtraX |
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Originally posted by newaccorddriver i bought it when it was on sale for i think $10 or something. it isnt really worth the money paid. it takes a while to get used to hot to use it, but its not meant for any moderate sized job at all like remote starter install or anything. for smaller jobs it should do the trick though, but even then, its not that good at it
Could you clairfy that I'm not sure what you meant.
I'll be mostly using if for soldering speaker wires, maybe a circuit board. Not much. If it's a complete POS I won't buy it, but right now for $10 I might give it a try. |
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| Godzilla |
| serioiusly it sucks completely. go to princess auto and buy a solder kit ( i bought one with a soldering pencel, gun, solder, holder, and flux for like $18 and has lasted me for about 3 years so far) |
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| Odey |
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Originally posted by CangDai
ya used it for about 30mins then returned it. it heats up pretty good, but i was using it for about 30mins straight and the tip shatter into pieces. i wouldnt recommend buying it.
i thought that i was the only person that this happened to. my first one the tip shattered, and the second one they gave me on warranty the internals shorted out and the whole unit started to melt to shambles.
but it wasnt bad for small 10 minute jobs. stick to the traditional soldering gun if you plan on having to use it for extended periods of time. |
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| NESTLE |
| they suck, i bought one, tip broke, bought another one and it didnt even heat up, i figured gas prices drivin back and forth were catching up so i didnt bother returning it haha and im to lazy |
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| Odey |
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Originally posted by NESTLE
they suck, i bought one, tip broke, bought another one and it didnt even heat up, i figured gas prices drivin back and forth were catching up so i didnt bother returning it haha and im to lazy
i still got mine at home....it looks like a melted snickers bar. |
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| newaccorddriver |
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Originally posted by XtraX
Could you clairfy that I'm not sure what you meant.
I'll be mostly using if for soldering speaker wires, maybe a circuit board. Not much. If it's a complete POS I won't buy it, but right now for $10 I might give it a try.
its a typo, i meant to say it takes a while to get used to how it works and how to use it. i wouldnt recommend getting one even if it was free, and like greg said, a cheap kit from princess auto would do you alot better then some gimmicky contraption. |
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| XtraX |
| Thanks guys. Just bought a regular one from Canadian Tire. |
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| bw54867 |
Ditto with the bad reviews.
Bought one off ebay, tip shattered, sucks too much to warrant buying a new tip. |
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| sparkycivic |
had one when they first came-out, it had trouble heating thick speaker wire, and completely useless for the big wires on the back of the IGN switch. then the tip shattered, and there was no possibility of getting replacement tips back then, so it went to the trash.
I know, it's a little late, but I actually feel a little better having said it... maybe it'll help someone else someday that's searching this topic....... |
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| accord90 |
| Sears had hundreds of these returned when they came out, wouldn't recommend one. |
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| onestepback |
| I picked one up at Can Tire a while back, and the cashier straight up told me I didnt want to buy it. So I opted for the old school soldering iron. I probably made a solid choice there. |
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| Odey |
| there was a recall on these in the states when they first came out. i guess they wouldnt turn off. |
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| koukimonster |
| that piece of shit gun needs like 30 ga solder to make it work dont waste your money |
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| BRITAIN1.8 |
| At work some guy asked me to fix one for him. Piece of junk. |
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| platnum accord |
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Originally posted by Odey
there was a recall on these in the states when they first came out. i guess they wouldnt turn off.
lol i could so see someone putting it in their shirt pocket like their commercial and losing a nipple. |
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| Odey |
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Originally posted by platnum accord
lol i could so see someone putting it in their shirt pocket like their commercial and losing a nipple.
it probablly happened in the outtakes when they were making the movie. |
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| platnum accord |
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Originally posted by Odey
it probablly happened in the outtakes when they were making the movie.
there is a movie on cold heat? |
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| Odey |
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Originally posted by platnum accord
there is a movie on cold heat?
yeah...i forget what movie i saw but there was a guy doing electrical work with one of these. |
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| kevito_ |
| I prefer the ones where you set the temperature and it automatically keeps it hot when you need it. I forget the name of them... they make 'buzzes' when you solder with them. Some of them can even put flux on as they heat up. |
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