Can this gun be used to re-solder electronic components, like melting electric solder tin?
304751
No, it doesn't generate enough heat to melt solder or even pinpoint like a soldering gun. I see the other guy said it would but I still doubt it. You should take a piece of solder and hold the heat gun on it and see if it will melt. This will answer your question if you don't believe my answer.
304752
I'm sure you could..but you'd be heating a very large area..I would use a solder gun to melt old solder..which is typically 700 to 750 degrees..
175030
This is indeed a low melting point solder/cleaner. It is much easier to melt than the other tin/lead and leadfree solders. If your butane can melt those solders, it will easily melt the Chip Quik. In fact, I would suggest you don't use it instead of standard solders in circuits that will be exposed to high temperatures, or near hot components. The stuff is primarily used for removing other solder by dissolving it in itself. You apply the chipquik over the solder joints you want to remove. When you then remove the chipquik/solder mix, the original solder is gone and you can remove the component it once fastened.
419903
I did some jewelry making with silver solder before in school, but we used torches, not a solder gun. We used natural gas torches, but you could do it with a propane one. I think you would have a better time if you bought a torch and some other equipment to do this kind of work. Don't forget your protective gear too! (faceshield, ventilation, etc)
528662
I'd say that a soldering gun is too heavy a soldering tool for that type of repair. I'd op-ed for either a good quality soldering station or a portable iron like the Iso-Tip. I used this one for small parts soldering as will as SMT. You can buy a verity of tips to suit your needs. Hopes this helps.
2088818
This is a pretty good soldering gun; I bought it to solder heavy duty starter brush leads and residential wiring. It will normally cause the solder to flow in a minute or less, depending on how much copper you have bundled together. I have had mine for a couple of years now and it's great...gave the smaller one away...you won't be disappointed.
573351
I use mine for electronics. You can't solder stainess or steel. It would have to be made out of brass or copper. A better idea would be the gun type soldering iron or something bigger than this one. I think I would call someplace like Guitar Center and ask what they use.
1599866
There should be no problem. Just make sure you cleaned all the plastic off the tip and it will work just fine. You just don't want to get melted plastic in your solder joints! So clean it all off.
1024715
I've never used it for that. Being the temperature the tip gets to I wouldn't recommend using it to touch anything that can not handle an immediate increase in temperature. We have mainly used these for soldering resisters, capacitors, etc to circuit boards where we mainly are extremely fast with contact on/off the metal part of the competence.
1758876
I use this silver solder with a electric soldering iron, works real good as long as your irons heat range will melt it. Ron
621218
It's LED so you really can't unless you want to break the soldering gun out and solder new ones in. I don't believe it was made to replace.
2075268
No Way! For soldering both materials to be soldered together must be heated, together with the soldering agent, namely, tin, lead, etc. Guns like this, as good as they are, for small stuff like wires and maybe jewelry, won't do big stuff. A flaming torch is needed for copper pipes and such, and you'll need an arc welder for steel anything larger than real small, thin stuff. For aluminum: I've never soldered, but I'm told "tig" welding is necessary.
529319
Yes, I have used it to repair surface mount circuit boards, replacing ICs less than 1/4" square. The technique for soldering takes more time than removing SMT parts.Bruce Sanderson
2059352
Do not know at this time I only used the one that was on it when I got it, it is a good soldering gun all I did was replace it with the same basic one I had for about 40 years...
1823250
My husband had used it to solder a pot metal carb back together, however he said it should be since it is solder and solder usually is. :)
1999426
Not sure. I have used it for electrical soldering and some jewelry soldering. have to be careful burns a little hot.
2137286
Sorry, I used this tool to create a dimple on metal before soldering so I'm not familiar with the job you want to do.
144446
No. Watch a few youtube videos. If you know how to solder it isn't too complicated.