I came across mention of these in a ham radio magazine from a few years ago and just remembered to ’oogle
Anyone tried using this sort of thing?
Do you think this works as good as a soldering station?
Well, the idea is that it heats exactly only what’s between the tweezer points. That seems likely to be useful.
At my age with shaky hands not so much perhaps; I’m hoping for a set of computer controlled Waldos where I just point to the target and the component and say “make it so(ldered)”
Concept is great. Cant imagine though using this
In 3+ pins components. Im sure this will work great
With mounting cree type leds
Turns out there are a lot of variations of these things.
https://www.google.com/search?q=solder+electric+tweezer
I once used something of the sort decades ago for jewelry soldering — just a clamp and a hot probe, so the piece was grounded and the electricity/heat could be placed pinpoint at one spot and then another. I’d forgotten all about it.
You’d really want temp control soldering tweezers if you want to do more than just resistors and diodes. Its not good to over stress capacitors. And at that point you might as well go for hot air. Tweezers are more for people who have a hot air station but do enough rework that a limited use tool like that makes sense.
Wouldn’t work for cree leds.
I’ve use them for smd resistors and capacitors. I found it very useful for removing components but not so much for soldering them on.
That's my experience exactly, great for desoldering, don't use these for soldering resistors and capacitors. They work quite well when soldering large parts that suck a lot of heat.
Is there something similar to remove a XM-L from a zebralight integrated driver/ led MPCB?
This won't work for that. Best bet is a hot air rework tool, hot plate, toaster/convection oven or heat gun (low velocity).
I'm sure others have some good ideas too.
I might give this a try with my S6330 one of these days.