popular Posted by Skillful_Pickle | Staff • Yesterday
Jul 3, 2025 10:07 PM
Item 1 of 9
Item 1 of 9
popular Posted by Skillful_Pickle | Staff • Yesterday
Jul 3, 2025 10:07 PM
Fanttik T1 Max Cordless Soldering Iron Kit - Fast Heating, 4 Precision Tips, Auto Sleep Mode, and 360° Swivel Stand - Save $30!+ Free Shipping *Live 7/3. RG Approved* $49.59
$50
$77
35% offAmazon
Get Deal at AmazonGood Deal
Bad Deal
Save
Share
Leave a Comment
5 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank UniqueLeopard361
This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tip gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it to work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a solder sucker and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
This is an amazing kit, but if you have no soldering experience I'd say get this, but don't use it immediately. By the super cheap irons, like 10 dollar beginner kit ones and start with that. Just because it's so easy to ruin soldering iron tips and and even solder suckers.
I don't know how you would go about getting replacement tips for these. They seem specialized for this model. Comes with 4 tips - 2 pointed, 2 flat. If you ruin them it may be hard to get a replacement, but once you're used to maintaining them then these should last a while.
There are many different soldering tutorials on YouTube. And there are cheap soldering kits you can buy that will have boards and components to practice with. Even for desoldering.
To start out you'll need an iron, a stand for it, and solder. Read up on solder types, there's rosin core, lead free, etc. Some work at lower temperatures and release flux that make the job easier, but the smell is toxic. Then there's lead free solder that is safer, but melts at higher temperature. Read up so you know what you wanna deal with. I wouldn't recommend soldering indoors without either a fan with a filter to capture the smoke, or a fan next to a window to pull everything out.
You'll also either need a sponge, which is wet to clean the iron's tip on, or the steel wool for the same purpose. I prefer not using sponges because the water causes the iron's tip to rapidly cool and can damage it quickly. Most kits come with sponges though.
You'll also need something for removing solder when mistakes happen or when you need to change something. There's something called a solder sucker, and then there's soldering wick. You'll find tutorials on how to use each on YouTube. Most people prefer one over the other, but it's good to know how to use both.
In general that's all you need to get started, but two things that help a lot over time is tip cleaner, for maintaining the tip, and solder flux, really good for SMTs (surface mount components).
On a soldering iron, the tip is where you're transferring all the heat from, and that's also what melts solder and has the solder stick to it. When a tio gets ruined solder will no longer stick. So it will become very inefficient in transferring heat and you'll end up with bad solder joints, if you can get it work at all.
It's easy to ruin one in the beginning, so that's why I recommend getting a cheap iron alongside this to ruin first and get your practice in. Afterwards you'll really appreciate this one.
When looking at tutorials make sure they're teaching you safety, don't wanna burn yourself or anything. Also about different types of solder, how to maintain your tip, how to tin the tip, best practices for through hole and surface mount components, how long you can hold your iron on things before they burn up, splicing wire, desoldering with a soldering sucked and wick, how to use flux. Then it's all just practice. The more you do, the better you'll get and the quicker you'll go through mistakes. It's not difficult to get into, but you just need to be careful and mindful. Good luck and have fun!
I hadn't seen anyone delivery like this in a long time.
Thank you (even though I'm not op)
How does one start to learn to solder, which resources you recommend?
I would start with a cheap kit and flux. Start by finding wires of different sizes, cut them and try to solder them back together. Once you get the hang of it, take out a board from any old electronic and learn to remove the components on the board and resolder them. If you get the hang of this two things you'll be able to fix most things you come across.
Example for a cheap kit: https://www.amazon.com/Soldering-...192&sr=8-3
Example for flux: https://www.amazon.com/Solder-Sol...196&sr=8-4
Leave a Comment