When doing surface-mount assembly you can certainly use a soldering iron in the traditional way, but it’s far more convenient to cover the pads with solder paste, place the components, and bake the ...

A device that even DIY enthusiasts don’t usually think to DIY is the humble soldering iron. Yet, that’s exactly what one Hackaday.io user did by building a USB-powered soldering pen with better ...

This excludes the ultra-slim, pointy one that already comes pre-installed. Then, there's some solder wire to get you started, a box of flux paste to prepare your metal surface for soldering, and a ...

Definition：Lead-free solder paste has developed rapidly as an alternative to leaded solder paste. EU’s RoHS ISO9453 and Japan's JEIDA stipulate that solder alloys with Pb content less than 0.1wt% ...

Soldering is the process of using a metal alloy with a low melting temperature (solder) to fuse the electrical contacts of a component to the pads of a circuit board. Proper soldering maximizes the ...