iFixit’s FixHub tools want to pull soldering away from the wall socket

Article note: The formfactor looks nice, but this seems practically worse than the later pinecil/ts type irons that have the controls in the handle so they work with any supply?

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Not being able to solder puts a hard cap on the kinds of devices you can fix at home. As more modern devices add in circuit boards and discrete electronics (needed or otherwise), soldering is often the only way to save an otherwise functional object from ending up in a junk drawer, or landfill.

That's the kind of roadblock iFixit's FixHub is intended to address. The repair store and repairability advocate now offers battery-powered soldering tools and beginner's kits, intended to make soldering something you can do almost anywhere, quickly, with a few features intended to help out novices and those feeling a bit rusty.

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  iFixit's soldering tools are meant to be used together or separately. The battery pack can control the soldering iron temperature, but so can a browser. [credit: iFixit ]

iFixit, which says it is going "all-in on soldering" in a press release, offers a few interconnected pieces as part of a FixHub system: