Welcome,
Iso-Tip, there’s a lot in our name. For more than 40 years we’ve been building the 7000 series soldering irons and the PRO’s tell us they stand apart from
the rest. Our Isolated Tip design gives high temps fast at the push of a button, anyplace. You might just find yourself done with the job while other irons are
still heating up. By isolating the tip we prevent electrical leakage that may cause component damage while soldering. Most soldering irons offer only a few
tip choices, over the years we have developed more than 20 tips to meet your soldering needs. Our High efficiency tips give you a quicker heat-up time and
use less battery life. The Long Life tips are Nickel plated and designed for more continual use and will meet all of your tougher tasks. Our long list of standard
tips will work well for your general soldering needs. For over 40 years professionals have looked to us for advancements in portable soldering and we have
enjoyed meeting that challenge. If you’ve never tried one of our cordless irons we hope you will. We also supply other “tools worth discovering” for heating,
finish work and the tough soldering jobs. If you have a need let us know, we do appreciate input from the people that use our products. Not all soldering
irons and especially tips are the same. Let us know what you think, we enjoy what we do and appreciate the people we do it for.
Thanks for visiting us
Your Team at Iso-Tip
www.iso-tip.com
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News, Events and Interesting Stuff
Titan and Solder
Here’s a photo of an infinite-color LED package that I soldered together. One pair of wires used the ISO-TIP silver bearing paste the other used standard solder. Both worked well but the solder was a little hard to hold on while holding the torch and the wires. The flame singed the wires a little too but not bad.
One Experience with the Iso-Tip Irons
Just a thank you…
Growing up in the late 70′s early 80′s I had 2 ISOtip 7700 in my toolkit. My first 7700, was given to me by my mentor & friend, Sydney Thomasson WB8FYI for me to work on S100 bus system I was building as so not to cause static damage. He had that 7700 for several years before he gave it to me, so I assume it’s from the late 70′s
A few years later, I bought another 7700 so that I could work longer. I even had an ISOtip drill attachment for it.
After many years, many different jobs, different homes, marriage & family I lost track of those 7700s.
2 weeks ago I was helping some friends put in a couple XLR panels on a stage, and I used a blue 25w solder pencil. And I started explaining to my friends how I used to use ISOtip 7700s, and how much I actually loved those tools. I still recalled that I could be soldering within second of rotating and pressing that little round button.
I even tweeted about my love of my long lost ISOtip over the past few weeks.
Much to my surprise this week, I did a google search a few days later, wondering what ever happened to your company, since so many companies from that period, Beckman, Simpson, B&K, Heathkit, etc, seem to disappear in the early 90s. You can’t imagine my surprise when I learned that not only were you still in business, you still made the 7700 & what I never purchased, the 7800 ’60′
I ordered and received this yesterday my new 7800… and even did an unboxing sequence of receiving it. And this morning, while working in the basement, I found my long lost 7700s, with the original tips. While I can’t seem to find the chargers, I noticed that All-spec.com has them available, which is where I ordered my 7800 from.. So now, I will order a couple of new batteries & a charger.
I also found you on twitter… so now I look forward to following you and putting my new & old friends back to work.
Thank you for all the support your products have given me in over 30 years.
From Micheal in WV.
Using the Pro50 Torch to Bend Acrylic
For another project we are working on we have some 1/8″ clear acrylic we are looking at. As long as it was on the desk I thought I’d try forming it with the Pro50 and the torch head. Sure enough, after a pretty short time – 15 seconds? I was able to put a nice free form 90º angle in the material. The ends of the corners swelled out a little with the bend.
I also took a small strip and bent it along the cut axis and again got a little swelling on the inside corner and thinning on the outside corner. This one didn’t look as nice as the first one because of the orientation of the bend. Either way though it was really easy to bend. I look forward to doing some localized forming and shaping with it too.
Solder Paste on Zinc Die Casting
So, the question of the day was will the solder paste solder zinc alloy. Zinc alloy is pretty broad range of materials and so the first answer was – I don’t know. That’s pretty weak so we found a zinc die cast part we use and tested it. This was a Zinc AG40A die cast, unplated zinc material. We tested the solder in some porous sections and between the threads. In both cases the paste did not adhere well to the zinc die cast. We tried again on a nickle plated zinc part and got the same results.
Solder Paste on Stainless Steel
We had a question from a customer the other day about using the silver bearing solder paste with stainless steel. Having never tried that yet we figured the best approach would be to test it and see. We got some 302 stainless brackets we use and drilled a bit of a hole in it. Then we used the Pro70 with a torch head to heat it up. It actually worked pretty well. The flux was messy but cleaned up pretty well with a wire brush. We then touched the solder ball on the left side of the photo to the grinder and leveled it off nicely. On the right side you can see after the grinder the color doesn’t quite match but it fills in well and stays attached.
