/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1331510
>>1331668
btw nice shilling for the chinks but I already know that some 27$ iron off of aldi is not going to work. i just got a piece of work literally red hot with a torch and solder still wouldn't adhere to it at all, just bead up, fall off, and cool to a nice shine

>joints that otherwise require two hands,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helping_hand_(tool)
idiot

>you HAVE to have a soldering iron actively attach itself to the work
then how do people solder with torches, like plumbers joining pipes?

>soldering irons are all perfectly electrically insulated and only get hot but also you have to have a current going directly across the tip but then it ruins diodes everytim reeee
if there being a voltage across the tip matters anyway, why are soldering tweezers used for SMD chips, and why do "Cold Heat" units and similar exist? Why does it even matter if I'm not soldering voltage sensitive components anyway? and have you ever taken apart a cheap iron and seen what's inside? it's not perfectly electrically insulated, but the tip is just a threaded bit that goes in, the live wires have some distance from it, separated by a piece something thermally conductive

>hurr shorted out a power supply lol hurrr
A conventional soldering iron is LITERALLY just a piece of something with high resistance that you plug directly into the wall, most don't even have on/off switches, at least I took an extra step of precaution and used a power supply that presumably has some safeties in it.

you have no idea what you are talking about and are just another one of Them. you don't even know that helping hands exist. fuck you. i bet you're one of those people who keeps telling me that vises are worthless and that I should be doing hand woodworking by literally holding the wood I'm trying to work down with my bare hands instead of using clamps, and that if I really need to I should be driving screws directly into my work surface through the work to secure it