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$15.88 Walmart Soldering Iron - SOIC-8

Soldering with the $15.88 Walmart soldering iron - SOIC-8

https://youtu.be/WdlE3xDzA7U

In this video I use the $15.88 Walmart soldering iron to solder a SOIC-8.

Will it solder?

In this video I used the $15.88 Walmart soldering iron and the unknown Chinese solder that came with it to solder a DS1307 real time clock in a SOIC-8 package.

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MapleEngineer

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What was I thinking?!?

In this video I take a crack at soldering a QFP-32 using the inexpensive Walmart soldering iron and mystery Chinese solder.

soldering

!soldering

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