Nick Clarke 3 | 08/02/2021 13:25:45 |
![]() 1427 forum posts 63 photos | Anyone ever used one of these? *Link* Useful or not?
Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 08/02/2021 13:27:12 |
Grindstone Cowboy | 08/02/2021 13:28:29 |
858 forum posts 64 photos | Just looks like a soldering iron with a smooth flat tip - can imagine it would take a steady hand and a lot of care to get anything like a good finish. Rob |
Journeyman | 08/02/2021 13:46:53 |
![]() 1159 forum posts 235 photos | Seems like a very effective tool for quickly ruining a nice 3D print John |
Tim Stevens | 08/02/2021 14:29:23 |
![]() 1598 forum posts | I once saw a big casting (over 6 x 6 x 6 feet) being smoothed using the same principle, but with a big electric arc and an air jet. Very spectacular and - I guess - more effective that this soldering-iron thingy. Tim |
John Haine | 08/02/2021 14:50:01 |
4675 forum posts 273 photos | Looks very like the tool I bought years ago for sticking plastic film to model airframes, though that was mains powered. Being USB powered this must be a bit limited in heat output. |
Dave Halford | 08/02/2021 17:30:03 |
2050 forum posts 23 photos | Posted by John Haine on 08/02/2021 14:50:01:
Looks very like the tool I bought years ago for sticking plastic film to model airframes, though that was mains powered. Being USB powered this must be a bit limited in heat output. Where I come from they were called mini travel irons, teflon coated base and a only fiver
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Nick Clarke 3 | 08/02/2021 17:38:39 |
![]() 1427 forum posts 63 photos | Posted by John Haine on 08/02/2021 14:50:01:
Looks very like the tool I bought years ago for sticking plastic film to model airframes, though that was mains powered. Being USB powered this must be a bit limited in heat output. I used a similar mains powered device as a tacking iron for photo mounting tissue to hold the tissue in place before mount, print and tissue were all placed in a mounting press and fixed for good. Old tech now I suspect. My own first thoughts were with Journeyman's above, hence my question. |
Neil Wyatt | 09/02/2021 14:35:24 |
![]() Moderator 19033 forum posts 734 photos 80 articles | I can imagine it's handy for ornamental jobs and maybe welding thermoplastics, but I suspect that it's not too useful for anything where dimensional accuracy or small detail is involved. Neil |
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