Soldering requires steady hands, so when [Jonathan Gleich] sadly developed a condition called an essential tremor affecting his hands, soldering became much more difficult. But one day, while ...

I’ll confess: I really enjoy making a well-crafted solder join between two wires or soldering a component onto a PC board. There’s something very satisfying about the smell of the rosin (we won’t talk ...

Have you ever tipped all the stray bits of solder out of your tip cleaner by mistake? [MisterHW] is here with a bit of paraffin wax to save the day. Hand soldering can be a messy business, especially ...

At some stage you will have to work with surface-mount devices (SMDs) and solder them by hand. You can wait until you are forced to learn, or you can leap into the fray with gusto and abandon. At some ...

In this guest blog post, taken from the Eurocircuits blog, Ben Verwaest considers whether hand-soldering can reach the same high quality result as reflow or wave soldering. In this guest blog post, ...

Bannockburn, IL. IPC, in conjunction with IFTEC, conducted the IPC Hand Soldering Competition at IFTEC in Paris. The competition was fierce as 33 competitors went soldering iron to soldering iron to ...

BANNOCKBURN, IL—IPC’s hand soldering competition returned to the United States with the first-ever IPC Hand Soldering World Championship and Rework Competition, held at IPC APEX EXPO 2019 in San Diego ...

SPARKS, MD--(Marketwired - May 1, 2013) - Weller, a global brand of Apex Tool Group known for innovative soldering solutions, today announced the launch of its high performance consumer soldering ...

I heard of a rather charming event the other day, a hand soldering competition – held at NEPCON Korea. What a nice idea. organised by IPC, apparently it had 139 contestants, including two school ...