I do a bunch of soldering. Soldering electronics, and soldering wire joints. Do you like to solder electronics, like I do? Plus what soldering iron and what type of solder material, do you use?

For me, I use a Hakko fixed temperature soldering iron with conical tip, and I use lead free based solder. Whats yours? 

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I use a 120W Craftsman iron and both leaded and unleaded solder.

I have a cheap weller iron and only use lead solder.

I do soldering ! Mostly wires and electronic components, but also did some chip replacements

I have a "simple" (but not cheap or nasty) iron at home and a thermostatic soldering station at the workplace. In the previous one it was a Weller WD1000, in this one a Hakko 888 (real Hakko, not a clone). They both are good stuff. I am occasionally looking through 2nd hand lists to snatch a soldering station for home on the cheap (i'd prefer a used original over a new clone from Ebay)

Nice! I also have a Weller soldering iron, a old one, in its original packaging! I have not used the old one yet.

My soldering gun actually looks like a gun with a trigger and at the end there is just a thick metal that does a u bend. It is an induction powered one so theres a magnetic ballast that makes this wire get hot or something. Its neat and you just press and hold the trigger and it will heat up the u bend and in under a minute its ready. I don't know the brand as it doesn't say..

Not the greatest for small tiny soldering needs but does well for normal and larger but I plan to get a real soldering station someday

Oh I didn't know that it has a inductor that heats the tip, I got to go find it. Its in the storage bin somewhere.

Oh is yours the shape of a gun ? I looked up soldering gun on google and it turned up a bunch of weller soldering guns and they look almost exactly like mine. the part with the u bend seems to be removable by loosening 2 screws. They work great but not for small tiny jobs

My favorite soldering iron is a Butane powered Cheapy from Amazon the Iso-tip it'll run for half an hour before needing to be refilled, with no wires in the way it has a little built in stand that flips out and will solder small SMD stuff and for larger stuff it has a torch tip on it and it fits in your pocket so you can take it to go.. But I do have a plug in Weller when I feel like dragging it out or if it's something I'll be working on for hours..

For solder I like MG Chemicals 96.3% tin, 0.7% copper, 3% silver, but anything that will consume lots of solder it gets 63% Tin, 37% Lead solder..

Oh is yours the shape of a gun ? I looked up soldering gun on google and it turned up a bunch of weller soldering guns and they look almost exactly like mine. the part with the u bend seems to be removable by loosening 2 screws. They work great but not for small tiny jobs

Yes it is, I just looked at it. I'll wait till my current one, which is the Hakko iron, dies. Then i'll use the Weller one.

My favorite soldering iron is a Butane powered Cheapy from Amazon the Iso-tip it'll run for half an hour before needing to be refilled, with no wires in the way it has a little built in stand that flips out and will solder small SMD stuff and for larger stuff it has a torch tip on it and it fits in your pocket so you can take it to go.. But I do have a plug in Weller when I feel like dragging it out or if it's something I'll be working on for hours..

For solder I like MG Chemicals 96.3% tin, 0.7% copper, 3% silver, but anything that will consume lots of solder it gets 63% Tin, 37% Lead solder..

Theres also rechargeable soldering irons. Not just butane ones.

Theres also rechargeable soldering irons. Not just butane ones.

There is but then you have to spend hours recharging the batteries, vs refilling a butane one which only takes like 30 seconds, and I like the pencil tip torch for soldering heavier wires like 10 AWG and for what I paid I can't complain and I only use like one can of butane a year in it..

And those gun style soldering units are good as well you can use thicker wire in place of the tip and make a hot knife to cut out Styrofoam with easy and other then the smell it's much cleaner, and with a little effort you can also use them to install plastic staples and repair broken plastic things.. 

@Lightingguy1994. Heres the Weller iron that I have, that is still in it's original packaging, however the packaging did seen better days.

I'm on Butane too - with a Signet iron. But that one is for the times when i'm not soldering at the workbench

@Lightingguy1994. Heres the Weller iron that I have, that is still in it's original packaging, however the packaging did seen better days.

Yup mine looks very similar to that