Hacking Gas powered irons

[teapea]

Dug my soldering iron out last night but it's broken. not used it for aages and wasonly a budget cheapo job.

luckily however i have access to a nice little 1mm tipped gas powered jobby. never soldered with a gas iron before but looks quite funky.

anyone ever used one before?

 

[Veho]

Yes. They can get very hot and are tricky, but they get the job done. You have to have some experience with them before trying them on sensitive stuff like circuit boards.

 

[FAST6191]

The first iron I purchased was a gas one (I had used electric ones for a fair amount of time at this point) and when I am working on cars or other hard to reach places I use one.
The former was cheap and nasty but got the job done (until it died about 8 months in), the latter was fairly expensive as far as soldering irons go (£30, average is £17) but I rate it as one of the best I have ever used.

+1 to veho as well.

 

[teapea]

hmm i was a little worried about the temp and how it would fair on circuit boards.

might go and just get el-cheapo mini mains one and be on the safe side.