What is this

[zhome888]

I got this with a bunch of other tools. What is this?

 

[wvrailroader]

Old soldering iron

 

[Zeke]

No more needs to be said. All you need now is a little furnace.

 

[KRB52]

Or a blow torch.

 

[jakemac]

Go ahead, try to rewire it. We want to see the pictures.

 

[MikeF2316]

Go ahead, try to rewire it. We want to see the pictures.

120 or 240 volt?

 

[beamrider]

^^Hah!!

Appears to be a soldering iron, circa "a long time ago".Heat with a blowtorch, or in a fireplace.

 

[The Cobbler]

My Dad had one, I remember him heating it up on the burner of our natural gas water heater . My uncle owned a plumbing & heating shop, they had cast iron furnaces to put them in to heat them.

 

[panknuckshovel]

Go ahead, try to rewire it. We want to see the pictures.

That would kill all the cordless engineering that went into it.

 

[MikeF2316]

My Dad had one, I remember him heating it up on the burner of our natural gas water heater . My uncle owned a plumbing & heating shop, they had cast iron furnaces to put them in to heat them.

We used this type of iron in grade 7 shop class to solder corners together on metal trays we cut out of mild steel sheet and bent up on a small brake with some hand fitting in the corners before the soldering. They were heated over a natural gas flame.

 

[Stuart in MN]

We used this type of iron in grade 7 shop class to solder corners together on metal trays we cut out of mild steel sheet and bent up on a small brake with some hand fitting in the corners before the soldering. They were heated over a natural gas flame.

I did the same thing in the same grade. 45 years later I still have that tray down in my workshop.

 

[Shadowdog500]

Give it a try, believe it or not they work pretty well.

Chris

 

[The Cobbler]

Geez yes, I used them in shop class in grade 7 too. also used them in plumbing & heating shop in high school
must be I'm getting old & forgetting LOL

 

[zhome888]

Thanks for the info

 

[bonneyman]

My Dad had one, I remember him heating it up on the burner of our natural gas water heater . My uncle owned a plumbing & heating shop, they had cast iron furnaces to put them in to heat them.

My dad also used one. Got a steel pail of wood chunks burning, and let the solder iron sit in the layer of red coals at the bottom. When it was ready, he'd pull it out, wire brush off any carbon and debris, and solder his cooler jacks and roof scuppers. Used muriatic acid to eat away the zinc first. He had to move fast as that work would draw the heat out of the soldering iron fast.

 

[bczygan]

That model has WIFI, but the newer ones have Bluetooth too.