Customer Reviews

Black & Decker CI500S Dual-Temperature Soldering and Craft Iron

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This maybe suited best for arts and crafts projects with all its different attachment tips, but if you want to solder electrical parts, forget it. The soldering tip never gets hot enough for quality work. Better to spend the extra money and get a real soldering iron that works.

I wanted to get a btter soldering iron to take care of a few loose ends. I saw this in my search and thought that I could use it for some crafts as well. On my first use a tip broke in the iron. I sent it out for repair and am waiting on a replacement.

With the Hot Knife tools, the dual power selectibility and the excellent base station with holding clamps, this is excellent for use in my R/C Airplane hobby.

the interchangable tips are perfect for many craft projects!! i have never used it for soldering, but for all the applications that i have tried it works great. the sponge is useful, but if you use it often expect to replace it soon. the stand is very useful and keeps me from burning myself, my table, or anything that i dont want heated. however after 3 months of pretty heavy use it has ceased to heat. i did not purchase this through amazon and have had some trouble getting the company i purchased it from to replace it. but even if they dont i will intend to buy another one. i have found no other craft iron on the market that even compares to the features and usability of this one. i just wish my local hardware store carried it.

The arms made to assist you holding objects while working on them are much better than I expected. The product is as advertised.

I've seen some reviews on here stating that the iron never gets hot enough to do any soldering for electronic parts. Well I didn't find that to be the case. The problem the others had was they probably didn't wait long enough. It takes quite a few minutes to heat up enough for soldering, but it does get there eventually. I think it's a good value for the iron, the holder/base with "helping hands" and the variety of attacments.

the only thing I found that I didn't like was that the knife blade fall out when used. But other than that every thing else works good. Used it on several things, plastic, wood, metal. Just because the knife wont stay in I still think it is a wonderfull product ( Black & Decker dual- temp sodering and craft iron). I enjoy it a lot..Thank you

This is without a doubt the absolute best soldering tool I have ever used,and I am really OLD.Thank You for the best product.Thanks Ernie

I use this to swap out parts on electric guitars and it works wonderfully. It heats up quickly, does the job, and is easy to use. I haven't even tried the other tips yet. My only improvement would be for the clips to come off and be reattached. They could work as heat sinks as well as to hold components.

The Black & Decker Dual-Temp Soldering Iron is an ideal utility soldering tool. It provides high heat when needed and the lower setting is perfect for those more sensitive jobs and it heats to temp rapidly.

The base unit is just the right size, stabile and the storage box is ideal as well. I would recommend this to anyone who requires a utlity soldering iron for household jobs.