Milwaukee M12 cordless soldering iron tool review

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  • @seancarraher
    @seancarraher Před 6 lety +24

    when you desolder it helps to melt a little bit of solder onto the joint to get the heat bridge going

    • @Fee.1
      @Fee.1 Před 4 lety

      seancarraher Can you recommend a source for learning to solder. Video preferably. I’m a visual/hands on person I just don’t retain info from reading as well. Particularly the theory/metallurgy/flux etc. side of things I’m just clueless on. Flux and rosin and getting solder to flow etc. just blows my mind

    • @donpindol778
      @donpindol778 Před 4 lety

      Helps when you use for this purpose 60/40 lead solder, colophony and desoldering hand pump. Oryginal soldering on pcb board uses no lead soldering which is rubbish to work on.

    • @BlazeGelos
      @BlazeGelos Před 3 lety

      @@Fee.1 To me this is one of the best, Just use RA type flux and 60/40 solder and you should be able to do most of electronics or electricity tasks. czcams.com/video/tfIwHuGzUEk/video.html&ab_channel=Androkavo

    • @Fee.1
      @Fee.1 Před 3 lety

      @@BlazeGelos ra? Do you have Instagram? Thanks

    • @BlazeGelos
      @BlazeGelos Před 3 lety

      ​@@Fee.1 It supposedly stands for rosin activated flux which is good for various alloys and it's forgiving on the cleanliness you need to have. There are also other kinds of flux but you have to be careful, there are some that might be quite weak for your application or so corrosive that you have to clean it off once you finish soldering. There is nothing related to soldering on my instagram but here it is if you want @migueloramoss

  • @macster5187
    @macster5187 Před 5 lety +4

    Thank you for reviewing this iron. I have been using mine over a year now and the chisel tip is all I’ve used, splicing lots of wires on vehicles and trailers and a few other odd projects. I have done everything from 24awg tiny Ethernet splices, up to 12awg without any issue. The bigger connectors or 10awg+ wire is slower, but still doable. Also the flat pack batteries make it a good standing soldering station you can use to build harnesses, or use from a workbench or off a pickup tailgate out in the field. 6.0ah is my go to, yes she’s a hungry tool if you are going back to back dumping heat into joints, but there’s also cheap aftermarket 6ah and 9ah packs and honestly if I blow through the 6.0 I keep on the tool then that was a lot of connections. Leaving it on more than a minute or two without use probably consumes as much power as it takes to do a couple solder joints. When building harnesses or doing trailer plugs, anything with more than 2 wires, I get everything ready/twisted/fluxed and slide my heatshrink down then do it all in a run. I hope maybe there’s some info or techniques that someone finds helpful. Cheers!

    • @michaeldeville1798
      @michaeldeville1798 Před 3 lety +1

      Can you use the heat from the soldering iron for heat shrink connectors or heat shrink tubing?

    • @Heizenberg32
      @Heizenberg32 Před rokem

      You soldered Ethernet wire?!

    • @macster5187
      @macster5187 Před rokem

      @@Heizenberg32 yes was something like 24-26awg, just remember to keep the twisted pairs matched and twisted. Our control system was using industrial switches at only 10mbps, so kind of prepared for a little EMF and crosstalk. It was not terribly challenging after the wires were stripped anyhow. Haha I can't remember why the section was damaged, but stuff happens and running new cable is sometimes a horrifying prospect in certain situations. I was at that site recently and saw the cable, brought back memories after several years, she's still in service.

    • @macster5187
      @macster5187 Před rokem

      @@michaeldeville1798 in a way yes, but the only time it's really practical is if you don't want to expose something else to the heat and you want it to be "contact only" vs heat gun or flame. Can be done, not fast, not ideal, not the right application most of the time, but yes technically possible.

  • @procrastinator1842
    @procrastinator1842 Před 4 lety +2

    As well as being awesome, the best part about this is that there is no flame or sparks, so I don't have to run around a site chasing a hot works permit. Massive time saver. Now we just need an M12 mini heat gun to match so we can do heat shrink.

    • @sircam6
      @sircam6 Před 4 lety +1

      Jamie Kulhanek you can always get the m18 hest gun

    • @procrastinator1842
      @procrastinator1842 Před 4 lety

      @@sircam6 I could, but that forces me onto another battery and charger platform. I want to keep everything for work M12 so my toolbag stays as light as possible.

  • @me7229
    @me7229 Před 5 lety +3

    I have the soldering iron. Awesome tool. Works really well

  • @loktom4068
    @loktom4068 Před 5 lety +3

    M12 just learned a new trick.👏

  • @dashaB-sl4pu
    @dashaB-sl4pu Před 4 lety +1

    As a retired electrician this is one of the best tools I've owned even
    compared to butane torches, biggest fault and criticism is there's no on
    board storage for the second tip, I glued a small piece of pvc on the
    handle so that the torch and both tips are one single unit, Milwaukee
    stuffed up big time on this as you'll lose one tip very easily

  • @gkeith4120
    @gkeith4120 Před 4 lety

    Good job on showing field examples.

  • @roncooke2188
    @roncooke2188 Před 3 lety

    IT TOOK A While to heat up, it looks a nice iron, i have just bought 2 handy gas irons, it may have helped to have melted solder onto it then desolder. Thank you for your video very interesting ( you like your adverts)

  • @BlazeGelos
    @BlazeGelos Před 3 lety

    Have some RA type flux on hand on a syringe presentation, you add just a little and that thing will make your solder flow so much easier and look shiny at the end. That's why the old solder melts easier applying new solder, because of the flux core that it has. Also, if you let the soldering iron too much time on the solder, the flux will degrade and again the solder will get like a rock, so you may have to add a bit from time to time when soldering. So yeah, that's the secret! I have even got a good solder on oily or greasy cables and oxygen sensor cables (those are impossible without a lot of heat and flux).

  • @Jpilgrim30
    @Jpilgrim30 Před 5 lety +1

    I know it’s late but if you take apart that iron then there is a potentiometer you can adjust and raise the temperature

  • @AlanDike
    @AlanDike Před 4 lety +1

    flux and mix some new solder on there to help spread the heat. Putting a glob on the end of the tip will definitely help transfer that heat better..

  • @james10739
    @james10739 Před 6 lety +2

    I'm assuming if this is your first portable soldering iron you don't have a ts100 but I was wondering how this compared to that I kinda figured it could heat up quick and all but ya it's the size of a butane soldering iron where as sure you have a cord with the ts100 but it's much smaller

  • @Booki89
    @Booki89 Před 6 lety +3

    Looks like it took a while to actually melt the older in some applications. I would imagine a butane one would melt solder almost instantly as soon as it touches the tip?

    • @procrastinator1842
      @procrastinator1842 Před 4 lety

      This iron pumps out 90 watts, that's a lot of power even for a corded iron. It's significantly more powerful than my Weller ts202 station. I'd say it's user error, need to tin the tip on any iron to desolder.

  • @jetsetjoey
    @jetsetjoey Před 4 lety +2

    DeWalt... WHY haven't you debuted a Cordless Soldering Iron?!?

  • @thekustomknight2264
    @thekustomknight2264 Před 2 lety

    Got one but got sick and tired of charging and changing batteries so used my gas one

  • @davidtrejo4118
    @davidtrejo4118 Před 6 lety

    The Best Tool in the word

  • @diegogregorio8558
    @diegogregorio8558 Před 3 lety

    Could you give me information about my welding it does not last long I use it to weld LEDs

  • @keylock9064
    @keylock9064 Před 6 lety +2

    I was thinking about getting one of these but now seeing the real practical application this tool has some realdeficits and limitations. I'm going with butane or some other fueled tool.

    • @zack9912000
      @zack9912000 Před 6 lety

      Key Lock Hakko makes a good one, 32 bucks that gets up to 600 degrees and runs on 4AA

  • @wiiumad1342
    @wiiumad1342 Před 6 lety +3

    bought mine over a week ago ill never go back too butane again

    • @dashaB-sl4pu
      @dashaB-sl4pu Před 4 lety

      Butane torhes have their place and they're good but I love these and no burnt fingers

  • @jordanbass3210
    @jordanbass3210 Před 6 lety +3

    Why would someone want a soldering iron so large and bulky? Having difficulty getting in small spaces with its large size. Why not just a regular ts100 I'm sure it performs better and it's a lot smaller

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 6 lety

      I really seriously considered the TS100 and was close to buying one, but my hesitation was that it isn't cordless. I may yet buy one however, just because I think the TS100 is neat.

    • @zack9912000
      @zack9912000 Před 6 lety

      QUADBOT FPV this I don’t understand why anyone who has done soldering before would buy this or what engineer thought this would be good idea. Hakko makes a far better portable one that is not even 1/4 this size and runs on 4 AA

    • @jordanbass3210
      @jordanbass3210 Před 6 lety

      not cordless but u can run it off of small lipo

    • @macster5187
      @macster5187 Před 5 lety +4

      This tool is maybe not as well suited for the super detailed electronics guys. I’ll just say for automotive, simple projects in the shop, custom LEDs, portable work out on big equipment in crappy conditions... you name it... this thing is far more rugged than the lighter pen style units and made with some different, probably more harsh, uses in mind. For the guy crawling under a trailer, working out in the snow, or like I’ve done many times 260ft up in a wind turbine, it has yet to fall short of what I needed it to do. Plus if you run M12 for some of your power tools already, it’s a no-brainer for any work I can’t put on the workbench with my Hakko iron.

    • @advertisingonly
      @advertisingonly Před 4 lety

      Mechanics who already have a bunch of the m12 batteries that occasionally have to repair a damaged wire can very quickly use this.

  • @davidtrejo4118
    @davidtrejo4118 Před 6 lety

    Excelent my friend

  • @Fasteddiesinhomerepair
    @Fasteddiesinhomerepair Před 6 lety +1

    it a problem with that type of tip because the heater doesn't have good contact

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 6 lety

      I think so too. The element inside doesn't really touch the metal, there is various amounts of air gap inside.

  • @awesomestev
    @awesomestev Před 6 lety

    hello just wondering if you know to tansfer heat when soldering you need to feed solder on to the tip of the iron then the job. this is the same for soldering and desoldering.

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 6 lety

      Yes, you are right, a little solder on those new tips would have helped with heat transfer.

  • @thekustomknight2264
    @thekustomknight2264 Před 2 lety

    Apply solder to tip and allow heat to stay on wire then remove dont keep moving the iron dude basics

  • @farmerboyfpv3637
    @farmerboyfpv3637 Před 5 lety +1

    Ts100. Nuff said.

  • @tadejfu
    @tadejfu Před 5 lety

    how come you don't use the soldering iron on the heat shrinks?? No heat gun hence less tools to carry

    • @8145dwerdna
      @8145dwerdna Před 4 lety

      I question if he even knows what he's doing anyway, considering how he solders wires together... Heats the solder up instead of the wires... And melt the solder into the wire...

  • @nickgomez5402
    @nickgomez5402 Před 4 lety

    Im a plumber and am looking at this to try to find a good way to solder on a hole strap on water lines with pro press fittings to keep it from moving without destroying the rubber in the fitting. Think this will work?

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 4 lety

      No you need more than this, not enough heat I think. Water pipe is a big heat sink.

    • @nickgomez5402
      @nickgomez5402 Před 4 lety

      bzeug not even for a 1/2” stub out just to stabilize the pipe (no water in pipe)

  • @gkeith4120
    @gkeith4120 Před 4 lety +2

    Is it really “your very own?”

  • @TJSWOODWORKINGSHOP
    @TJSWOODWORKINGSHOP Před 6 lety +5

    Hey my brother I sub to your channel awesome videos to keep up the good work :)

  • @terrystearns1196
    @terrystearns1196 Před 2 lety

    No That's about the perfect temperature

  • @BlackDecrypter
    @BlackDecrypter Před 2 lety

    and it still works? hasn't it broken down?

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 2 lety

      Still works, but honestly, I use my Ryobi more often.

  • @TheImtoomuch
    @TheImtoomuch Před 3 lety

    This thing is lame. I was torn between this and the Ryobi. The Ryobi gets much hotter so I’ll go with that one for my application. Thank you for the review.

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 3 lety +1

      It has its place, but I use my Ryobi most often.

  • @bradleymorgan8223
    @bradleymorgan8223 Před 6 lety

    How is availability for replacement tips?

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 6 lety

      Good question. Haven't needed any new tips yet. But looks like Acme Tools has them available for order. www.acmetools.com/shop/tools/milwaukee-49-80-0400?cm_mmc=Google-_-PRODUCTFEED-_-MILWAUKEE-_-49-80-0400&CAWELAID=600009240005419334&CAGPSPN=pla&CAAGID=47145488619&CATCI=pla-342887610653&catargetid=600009240005419382&cadevice=c&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5LbWBRDCARIsALAbcOee1w4DyIQX1nU-N4MuwJKvDV21URBhB7galWg5Wh1wjidLL0udRpYaAoVEEALw_wcB

  • @dojmike
    @dojmike Před 6 lety +1

    Since this does not use AC power, I would presume that it is ESD safe. I wouldn't want to solder on any PC board unless it is ESD safe. Anyone know?

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 6 lety +1

      You got me thinking. I don't know. I think if you are ESD grounded with strap or whatever and you are holding this iron then there is no electrostatic charge on you or the iron. I guess. Interesting question.

  • @josevelarde4113
    @josevelarde4113 Před 4 lety

    Does it uses gas? Or propane?

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 4 lety

      No gas. Battery only.

  • @rumenmarkoff8767
    @rumenmarkoff8767 Před 6 lety

    4:28 difficult time because this iron is low power, this build is old style (like T900) and heater- tip thermal contact is poor. Milwaukee should go for cartridge tip like JBC or Hakko. On a top of everything is overpriced $69

    • @bzeug
      @bzeug  Před 6 lety

      What you are saying makes sense. I noticed when I did the tip change that the element doesn't really friction fit against, well, anything. The heating element just seems to float and maybe touch the side a little in places.

  • @bb4jdmlude
    @bb4jdmlude Před 6 lety +2

    Looks great but a 50 dollar butane solder gun will do the same thing and takes 10 seconds to refill

    • @zack9912000
      @zack9912000 Před 6 lety

      bb4jdmlude this

    • @flinchy-5224
      @flinchy-5224 Před 6 lety +1

      I've used some super high end butane irons and they've all been completely 100% useless.

    • @ThisTall
      @ThisTall Před 6 lety

      That’s at least twice as long as it takes to swap a battery.... and no fumes to smell in tight spaces

  • @Dansyoung
    @Dansyoung Před 6 lety

    I am curious is Milwaukee will release a “blower” attachment for this soldering iron? Similar to what butane soldering kits come with to concentrate an area with heat for shrink tube. I know they also released the cordless heat gun, but it is too big, bulky, slow and expensive just for heat shrink.

    • @ElevatedMochi
      @ElevatedMochi Před 6 lety

      Dansyoung I ended up buying one with great reluctance but it turned out very well. Yes it is slow and expensive but usually when I use heat shrink it’s because there’s no power or I don’t want to run my lead for a few shrinks. Anyway what swayed me is that it is able to bend 20mm conduit eventually, no regrets with the purchase

  • @sloppydoggy9257
    @sloppydoggy9257 Před 2 lety

    You're not soldering correctly... Tin the tip if the iron to give yourself more surface area and then apply the tip of the iron to the wires. Dab the solder directly onto the wires opposite of the side of the iron. The wire is what should be melting your solder & the location of the iron being opposite causes the solder to flow through the wire towards the tip. What you're doing now is creating cold solder joints b/c ur not actually getting any flux from the rosin core on the wire itself.

  • @Fringeless
    @Fringeless Před 4 lety

    I bought this at home depot to replace my weller portasols what a joke. the portasols heat up instantly are way smaller and solder bigger wires. Taking that milwaukee back to home depot.

  • @kakojnibud
    @kakojnibud Před 4 lety

    looks like it is not easy to make job outside with this item.

  • @bigblock53
    @bigblock53 Před 6 lety +4

    butane seems to be better

    • @joshromero87
      @joshromero87 Před 6 lety +1

      Andy Ostensen it’s not man this is so much more convenient

    • @Daedalus_UK
      @Daedalus_UK Před 5 lety

      @@joshromero87 no i think you dont know.

  • @ThisTall
    @ThisTall Před 6 lety

    Why do ppl keep calling this super cool portable plastic welder a soldering gun?

    • @richieknight5423
      @richieknight5423 Před 4 lety

      And why do idiots call this soldering iron a plastic welder.
      Twats aren't they👍

  • @RETMAN1
    @RETMAN1 Před 6 lety

    I Subscribed and like ! 819

  • @Dhinsa90
    @Dhinsa90 Před 6 lety +13

    why do Americans say saaaarder when it's spelt solder??

    • @dojmike
      @dojmike Před 6 lety +2

      Walk and talk also have a silent "L"

    • @twoweeledsoto6072
      @twoweeledsoto6072 Před 6 lety +5

      Why do people come on CZcams and do their little grammar and spell checks?

    • @K0ester
      @K0ester Před 6 lety

      twoweeled soto the world is diverse, and with so many languages on earth, there’s bound to be tribalism wrapped up with it all.

    • @donmichaelcorbin4417
      @donmichaelcorbin4417 Před 5 lety +1

      In this particular case, I'd say it's because this fellow is what we in the southern part of the US would call a "yankee". This means he hails from one of the states in the north eastern United States, a cold dreary land whose inhabitants (a notoriously impolite, unfriendly, and, at times, down right rude lot) are known for doing such odd things as calling dinner "lunch", supper "dinner", and refering to Coke as "soda" or "pop". That's if you're able to make out what they're saying in the first place, since they talk about as fast as Tech9ine raps - if he were on speed. I suppose it can't be helped. They're a high strung lot anyway, always in high gear, running here and yonder, forevermore in a hurry. Like they're all jacked up on Mountain Dew. It'd have to be that or Coke, because their tea certainly doesn't have any sugar in it. I bet that's why they don't eat grits up there, they don't have time to wait for them to cool off......

    • @thewatcher611
      @thewatcher611 Před 5 lety

      @@donmichaelcorbin4417 " whose inhabitants (a notoriously impolite, unfriendly, and, at times, down right rude lot)" Lol, I am a Native to these lands. You must be referring to the Norwegian and German bunch that is common. We Natives are some fun loving, joking folks. I say supper, all the white people up here say dinner, and that annoys me to no end. We so say pop, because NOT EVERYTHING is coke. LOL! Anyway, people have different accents.

  • @richardf911
    @richardf911 Před 3 lety

    Too darn big.

  • @sslusshy
    @sslusshy Před 6 lety

    Look out dewalts gonna copy

    • @zack9912000
      @zack9912000 Před 6 lety

      sslusshy dewalt won’t copy this pos. Massively way too bulky for anyone who has any soldiering experience. Hakko makes a solid portable one that runs on 4AAs that gets up to 600f.

    • @sslusshy
      @sslusshy Před 6 lety +1

      They copy everything else, I wouldn’t buy this but I’m sure they will come out with something better later! And that’s fine but I wouldn’t buy anything I have to put 4 aa battery’s I’m constantly either, that’s like dinosaur shit you can have that bud

    • @zack9912000
      @zack9912000 Před 6 lety

      sslusshy How is it a dinosaur, it uses cheap and inexpensive batteries you can get anywhere. If something happens to this you have an expensive perpruatary battery.and charger. Hakko simply builds better designed products for soldering. If you want to use a two handed tools for soldering work you can have that bud. I will use a hand handed tool that I can get batteries anywhere in a pinch. If you ever did any actual soldering on a daily bases it is like night and day between this laughable thing and what techs would actually use. If you are happy with it, that’s fine but this thing is atrocious.

    • @loucifer323
      @loucifer323 Před 6 lety

      Dewalt makes tools that people will want and use, they don't go making tools for the sake of making it, in another year won't be able to find this tool,and talk about copying their new 18v table pretty much identical to dewalts

  • @flinchy-5224
    @flinchy-5224 Před 6 lety +2

    That's some pretty terrible technique...

  • @dashaB-sl4pu
    @dashaB-sl4pu Před 4 lety

    As a retired electrician this is one of the best tools I've owned even
    compared to butane torches, biggest fault and criticism is there's no on
    board storage for the second tip, I glued a small piece of pvc on the
    handle so that the torch and both tips are one single unit, Milwaukee
    stuffed up big time on this as you'll lose one tip very easily

    • @Fee.1
      @Fee.1 Před 4 lety

      Have you tried the TS 100 or whatever it’s called

    • @dashaB-sl4pu
      @dashaB-sl4pu Před 4 lety

      As a result I bought a second one for convenience, one in my shed and the other one on my train layout, they are brilliant

    • @dashaB-sl4pu
      @dashaB-sl4pu Před 4 lety

      @@Fee.1 What's that?

    • @Fee.1
      @Fee.1 Před 4 lety

      dashaB0553 the ts80 and the ts100 are the future and this Milwaukee looks like..an old Cadillac in comparison. czcams.com/video/_Z9es-D9_8g/video.html

    • @Fee.1
      @Fee.1 Před 4 lety

      Plus the new school is more affordable, more powerful, has a built in but replaceable battery and is chargeable anywhere with usb. And it fits in your pocket like a pen. It’s what the Milwaukee would be if they had updated theirs since it came out 12 years ago