Customer Reviews

Coopertools SP12 Mini Lightweight Solder Iron

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This soldering iron is perfect for my electronic wireing. It heats up fast and works great for lite soldering. I highly recomend it for small jobs.

Im a pc/electronic tech. and been using traditional soldering iron for a couple of
years and been looking for a smaller iron and finally found this tool.

Pros:
-its small,light just like a pencil
-easy to navigate since it just like a pencil

Cons:
-I noticed that the tip/point is not replaceable

so far its good in making small electronic project, not recommended using it to
unsolder component in a large circuit eg. LCDTV boards, pc boards.

When the ipod i received from ebay I found out had a dead battery, I decided to DIY it. This low-wattage iron was perfect for those small connections, without having damaging heat for the delicate components on the cardstock thin circuit board. It was a successful operation thanks to this tool!

I didn't want to spend this much for a little soldering iron, but I needed something to solder PCB boards for little amps/dacs. It's hard to believe it's only 12 watts, because it seems much hotter than that. It heats up very very quickly and does the job very very well. The pencil tip is not perfect like my other one, but I think that is because a pencil point can break very easily. They made it very close to the end, just the perfect amount that it gives a very nice pinpoint without much worry about breaking off. If you solder little amps or dacs and need something for those very small and tight to reach spaces, get this thing and you will not regret it one second. The best thing about it is that the whole end point heats the solder, not just one side like my other cheap ones did. I used to have to search for the side that had the heat and that was very very annoying and this is like a breeze now. Much much better than the cheap ones here.

I bought this iron to solder 22 connections to a circuit board not much larger than a postage stamp. My eighty year old hands and eyes approached this task with a lot of trepidation, but the iron performed flawlessly. Just the right amount of heat to do the job. I would prefer a chisel tip to the round one but it did the job. It would not work well for larger work. For regular wiring get at least 40 watts or larger.

My regular soldering iron was too big and too hot to solder directly onto a circuit board. This mini soldering iron was perfect, and now my iPod nano 1st gen is back up and running with a new battery.

It's bare bones, no on/off switch, cheapy stand, no sponge, no solder, no case, but that's why it's so inexpensive.

I use this for a printed circuit board. The heat range is fine for that. Worth the money.

Shortly after I got the iron, the tip fell out.
Moreover, its heat was to low to sufficiently melt the solder(at least in a reasonable amount of time).