The soldering tips are simply made from thick copper wire sculpted into the correct shape. There are advantages to using a soldering iron like this, for example they are pretty durable and will ...

We’re not just talking about hand-soldering 80-pin QFNs without a stencil, either: there are people building charlieplexed LED arrays out of bare copper wire, and using Kynar wire for mechanical ...

It comes as wire on a spool ... called a soldering iron (or soldering gun). Soldering is most commonly used to join wires in ...