Our commenteers have all said good things about the open-source TS100 soldering iron pencil: things like “it solders well”. But we’ve all got soldering irons that solder well. What possible ...

It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the temperature using some sort of digital control. But how accurate is it? Probably pretty accurate, but [TheHWCave] picked up a ...

For instance, if the soldering iron came with a single large chisel tip, we tested it on large seams like those found in stained glass, but we didn’t attempt to use it for tiny printed circuit ...