Topic: New Cold Heat soldering irons

[Massive Dynamic]

I've seen the Cold Heat soldering irons on infomercials, and now at Radio Shack.  Anyone try one yet?
Radio Shack 64-2102

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

That would have come in handy when my power cable broke at the allman brothers.

[ChrisV]

That looks pretty nifty.

[caymanreview]

i have been contemplating one for awhile, untill a guy at work came in with a Snap-On one that is refillable butane. i think il go with a quality product before i get a 20$ one

[Ed.]

i keep getting spam for one of those...i think it might be the first spam that i actually looked at in quite awhile.

[caymanreview]

i saw it on a infomercial type commercial several months ago. i posted about it but no-one had tryed it

i need to buy a new soldering iron. but i probably wont egt one of these

[EA]

I collect full sized upright arcade games and on one of the arcade games newsgroups there was a thread about these. The people that had tried them all seemed to have positive things to say about 'em. Haven't tried one myself though.

[Ed.]

interesting collection...can i come over.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

I collect full sized upright arcade games.

What games do you have? 

I have a buddy collects those.  here's his collection:  http://www.peterhirschberg.com/arcade/gameroom.htm

[EA]

Nice collection he has. I wouldn't wanna pay his freakin' electric bill though! I go through phases with my games. Buy 'em, play with 'em for a while, sell 'em off. I tend to move around a fair amount. So it's not really practicle for me to have a bunch. Certainly not like his.

[Ed.]

I collect full sized upright arcade games.

What games do you have? 

I have a buddy collects those.  here's his collection:  http://www.peterhirschberg.com/arcade/gameroom.htm

my back hurts just thinking about moving all of those.

[The Kilted Taper]

Costco is now carrying a cold heat iron. I forget what brand it was though. $15.99.

[ChrisV]

Wow, this is one hot item(no pun intended).

I went to Radioshack to pick one up and found out they are sold out of them at all 40 stores in the area! 

The dude working there said they had a ton of them shipped into the store but they went like hotcakes.   Anyhow, I guess I'll just use my regular (picked up a new tip at RS) for now and add this to my Christmas list.   Or maybe just buy if I see it instock at Fry's or Home Depot before then

[b-moreman]

I make wires and interconnects regularly at my job using various connectorization techniques. Soldering is a fairly regular technique utilized. One day at Home Depot I saw these "As Seen On TV" cold heat soldering irons. I admit, they look pretty cool!

Well guess what. . . They Suck!

At least, ther're pretty useless in soldering wire. They may have some useful application, but certainly not for making interconnects.

They have split tips that must contact the same metal to close the circuit and create continuity fo rthe iron to get hot. It makes getting both wires or metal surfaces hot (to create a good solder joint) next to impossible. This is particularly true with soldering connectors on the end of a wire. It may work fine for soldering two wires together but sometimes. . .

if it looks too good to be true. . .

I think we initially bought three, one tip broke the first time trying, they  take too many batteries, and they're just not that practical.

IMHO

[Tall Adam]

I collect full sized upright arcade games.

What games do you have? 

I have a buddy collects those.  here's his collection:  http://www.peterhirschberg.com/arcade/gameroom.htm

holy shit! what does your friend do for a living thats in his home? it looks like a full on arcade! he's even got the cheesy rug!