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    Pocket Sized Soldering Kit (Cold Heat Hack)by iculus on July 18, 2009

    Table of Contents

    intro: Pocket Sized Soldering Kit (Cold Heat Hack) ....................................................................................

    step 1: Hack your Cold Heat soldering iron (1 - Disassemble) ............................................................................

    step 2: Hack your Cold Heat soldering iron (2 - Dremel) ................................................................................

    step 3: Hack your Cold Heat soldering iron (3 - Modify) .................................................................................

    step 4: Hack your alligator wire clip leads ...........................................................................................

    step 5: Hack your Strippers ..................................................................................................... 1

    step 6: The Rest ............................................................................................................. 1

    step 7: Pack Your Box ......................................................................................................... 1

    Related Instructables ........................................................................................................... 1

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    intro: Pocket Sized Soldering Kit (Cold Heat Hack)It's the final two minutes of the best football game of the season, your team is up by seven and the opposition has the ball on your 10 yard line. The football is hiked, aas instantly as the ball leaves the centers hands, the TV looses power due to that loose wire you have been putting off fixing for months. Even worse, your regularsoldering setup is all the way in the basement and will take too long to retrieve. What do you do?

    Luckily for you, you have followed this instructable, and created the most useful tool package of all time, and even better, it is small enough to f it in your pocket,specifically, the pocket of the pants you are wearing right now. With a minute to go, the TV is up and running and your team has intercepted the ball. Way to go.

    Sound like a situation you would like to avoid or a solution you would like to have on you at all times? Good, read on.

    This instructable will document the steps necessary to modify and fit every tool and useful accessory required for an emergency soldering job in the hacker-essential,pocket-sized, minty-smelling, Altoids tin container.

    Within one tin, you will be able to fit:

    One Cold Heat soldering iron with two extra batteries and a spare tip (hardware store)One clip anywhere helping hand (hardware store)Several inches of multiple sized heat-shrink tubing (hardware store)Several feet of electrical tape (hardware store)Cable ties (hardware store)Flexible standing light and laser pointer (because it's not worth doing if it doesn't have lasers) (pharmacy; tool aisle)Small Phillips and flat head screwdriver (hardware store)Small Wire stripper and cutter (electronic or hardware store)

    This instructable will feature:Hack your Cold Heat soldering ironHack your alligator clip wire leadsHack your StrippersThe RestPack your boxVideo on Final Page *coming soon*

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    step 1:Hack your Cold Heat soldering iron (1 - Disassemble)Contrary to popular belief, this Johnny 5 is meant to be disassembled.

    For this step you will need the following parts:Cold Heat Soldering Iron ($19.99 from a hardware store)Two CR2 Lithium-Ion batteries ($9.99 from your film processing/prescription providing superstore)Short length of thin gage wire (24 or smaller)SolderElectrical TapeAltoids Smalls box

    And the following tools:Soldering Iron

    Small Phillips screwdriverWire cutter and/or stripperDremel with standard accessories

    First and foremost, in the words of Norm Abram, "Before we use any power tools, let's take a moment to talk about shop safety. Be sure to read, understand, and folloall the safety rules that come with your power tools. Knowing how to use your power tools properly will greatly reduce the risk of personal injury. And remember this: this no more important safety rule than to wear these - safety glasses." What good is a mini soldering iron if you have no eyes?

    Begin by disassembling your cold heat soldering iron (CHSI). Even though I will post photos of my iron, it is recommended that you photograph your CHSI before cuttiany wires or removing any components. This way, if your CHSI differs from the example, you will be able to track the changes later when you discover the differences

    Remove the screws holding the CHSI together, including the screw accessed from the battery compartment holding the blue grip to the housing. Separate the two halvof the unit, and observe. You will note the tip apparatus in the front of the unit, several wires running to the back circuit board, battery terminals, a switch, and a fewLED's. All of these parts will be saved and reused, so as you remove them, place them in your handy pocket sized Altoids tin screw organizer that will soon become thcase for this project. To remove the wires from beneath the fused plastic fastening method chosen by the manufacturer, use an X-acto knife. To avoid cutting the wireshold the knife at an angle, and pull the wires behind the blade before applying pressure (see photo below). You will f ind a few more screws holding the tip in place,remove these and remove the internal components in one piece.

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    step 2:Hack your Cold Heat soldering iron (2 - Dremel)With your CHSI components to the side, it is time to make the housing. Quickly eat all of the Altoids that are in the way of completing this project contained in the AltoiSmalls container. Save room, there will be more later.

    From your collection of spare parts, find the black tube that surrounded the white CHSI tip holder. If you cant find it, you may have not removed this from the white porof the device yet. Use this to mark the diameter of hole needed to fit the the tip holder through on the outside of the box. Use the photo below for rough dimensions.

    Placement does not matter too much with any step, just be aware that any changes you make in dimensions will need to be accounted for in future steps.I do not recomend using a drill to make this hole. The drill bit will begin to penetrate the tin, then immediately bind causing abrupt rotation of the box and a rough noncylindrical hole. The correct tool for this job is a Dremel with a cutting wheel and a grinding stone. These accessories come standard with most Dremels, and are, in mopinion, the only useful tools for a Dremel. Cut the hole and a groove for the switch on the side. Note, you will probably need to cut an arc out of the lid where the lidmates with the hole (refer to photos for clarification). You will also need to cut a flap on the bottom. This flap will be used to bend into the case and hold the batteries inplace. Use the batteries as a marking gauge. In the photo, three sides are cut, and the fourth side, closest to the center, is only marked wi th a sharpie.

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    step 3:Hack your Cold Heat soldering iron (3 - Modify)With your case modified and your components removed, it is time to make modifications and integrate the parts. First, scuff the inside wall (opening side, not hinged sof the tin where the batteries will be installed. I chose the right side. Place the battery terminal designed for both positive and negative on this wall, heat it up, and soldthe battery terminals to the wall. Since the tin is essentially a large heat sink, it will take a lot of heat to get the solder to stick to the wall as well as the terminal. Again,refer to the photos for dimensions. With this in place, cover the entire interior of the case with tape. The tin is conductive, and these batteries have a lot of energy in thIf you do not tape the walls, you could complete the circuit, drain the battery, and create a potential fire hazard. Do not be scared of this, just respect the power of the

    batteries and be safe.

    Next remove the positive terminal (no spring) from the LED, and connect the red wire directly to the LED. At this time, you can shorten all of the cables as much as yowant for packing convenience. It is not necessary, but it is recommended.

    Add a short length of wire to the LED terminal with the red wire to attach to the just removed positive terminal. You will also need to solder a wire from this same junctito the center tab on the CHSI tip holder (thick yellow wire in image).

    Replace the center terminal wire from the switch with a longer wire, and attach this to the negative battery terminal (with spring). Cover all exposed metal with electricatape, tape the white LED (near the tip) to the tip so the light shines through the hole in the case for the tip, and cover the circuit board with tape. Attach the red LED to tape covered circuit board, and stuff everything into the case as shown below. You may need to tape or epoxy the switch in place depending on how your installationworked out. It is possible to use just tape and friction from the wires, but use adhesive if you are looking for a more permanent fix.

    You are now done with the Cold Heat Soldering Iron hack.

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    step 4:Hack your alligator wire clip leadsTools Required:Soldering ironWire cutters

    Parts Required:

    Solid core stiff wire - 3"alligator clips

    This is a simple step. Take one perfectly good alligator clip wire lead, remove the alligator clips from the wire and discard the wire, remove the covers from the clips, asolder a short length of solid core wire to each clip to act as a supportive but flexible connector between the clips.

    To use this tool, clip one gator to a fixed object, and use the other to hold a wire while you solder.

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    step 5:Hack your StrippersI found a small yellow wire stripper at the local electronic depot that seemed difficult to operate and more or less useless, except for its size. This wire stripper is not toused as your every day stripper, but in a pinch, it will work wonders. If there were ever a place to store such a wire stripper, a small form factor, emergency use solderkit is it.

    This modification is simple. Cut off as much of the stripper as possible leaving only the mouth section of the tool with the scalloped top side and razor bottom side.

    step 6:The RestSo now we finish the preparation for the pocket soldering station. Here, we will modify the tape, heat shrink tubing (HST), cable ties, wire, solder, and spare batteries.

    Take one length of larger diameter (.25") HST and three lengths of small diameter (.125") HST, and insert the three lengths of small tube into the large tube. Cut thisassembly into lengths the width of the box (hinge to unhinged side) and put them aside. You can refer to this step to create more HST bundles at any time.

    Take another piece of HST, cut a larger than tape width section, and unroll a foot or two of electrical tape. Wrap this tape around the HST, and continue to roll until thetape is coiled. The goal is to make a smaller inner diameter tape roll, so HST is not required, but you should have some around from the last step. Put this aside.

    Gather five to ten 5" cable ties, and trim the ends off where the ribbed section meets the smooth section. Place these to the side.

    Next cut a foot of a few different color lengths of wire, as well as a foot of solder. Coil these into flat coils and hold them to the side for later.

    Last, wrap each of the two spare batteries with tape over the terminals, and put these to the side.

    To prepare for the next step, obtain all objects to be packed in the case including the flashlight and batteries mentioned only in the first step.

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    step 7:Pack Your BoxNow that your helping hand and CHSI are complete, they can be packed into the main Altoids housing.

    Gather together:Hacked CHSIHelping handHeat shrink tubingHacked Wire cuttersSmall screwdriver, multi tip or otherSmall electrical tapeSolder coilWire coilSpare batteries

    Flashlight w/ laser

    Start by inserting the CHSI into the case such that the aspect ratio of the small box matches that of the large box. If it doesn't fit, press the internal components furtherinto the box, or remove the tip.

    Place the flashlight in the case so it is parallel to the long side of the box and perpendicular to and covering the CHSI tip.

    Place the cable ties and helping hand on top of the light.

    Insert the batteries perpendicular to this light at the end of the container.

    Insert all other components however they fit best. If done right, the container should close with no issue, and stay shut on it's own. If needed, wrap the container inelectrical tape to ensure closure.

    Finally, place this in your pocket. You will not need it until you forget this final step.

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    1up says: Jul 20, 2009. 10:22 PM REPWith all these awesome pocket-sized entrys, I'm running out of pockets to put them all in! :D

    Nice Instructable.

    adamvan2000 says: Jul 23, 2009. 11:59 PM REP*cough*cargopants*cough*

    ;O)

    ~adamvan2000

    iculus says: Jul 21, 2009. 8:03 PM REPThanks

    isaac gs0 says: Jul 20, 2009. 7:14 AM REPI love this idea, its great.I am always taking a bag of computer parts or electronics with me where ever I go along with the tools to work on them now i will be able to solder themwhile on the go.The only thing i see in this that i don't agree with is wrapping the shrink tube in electrical tape, that tape tends to leave a real sticky residue.Great ins

    iculus says: Jul 20, 2009. 5:15 PM REPThe piece of heat shrink tubing wrapped with tape is designed to be sacrificial and is only used as a smaller diameter tape core. The remaining pieces tubing should remain un-taped, to prevent exactly what you are describing. Sticky tubing would be terr ible.

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    Rimwulf says: Jul 23, 2009. 6:58 PM REPStop using electric tape and try masking tape no residue. unless you had plans on using the black tape.

    jhvh.one says: Jul 20, 2009. 5:12 PM REPyou could just as easily use a toothpick, or straw, or what have you...that piece of heat shrink used as the e-tape core is no longer meant to be used asheat shrink, although in an emergency you still could.he used it because he had some left over from cutting the rest of the heat shrink down to size. the only function it serves is to make a smaller core for te-tape included in the kit.

    wwlaveck says: Jul 23, 2009. 2:27 PM REPI too have tried to use a ColdHeat iron. You have to keep both sides of the split tip touch metal or wire for the iron to heat up and that is not always easy todo. As soon as the tip loses contact the iron is cold. The small battery irons work much better and I think mine only takes 15 seconds to heat up. But youcan't put it in your pocket just after using it. However, I never felt the need to carry a soldering iron in my pocket and I am smart enough not to touch the tipa hot iron.

    Esmagamus says: Jul 23, 2009. 9:55 AM REPAnd after you've fixed the wire the hard way (the quick way would be having some wago clips and a wire stripper), you pack everything, anxious to get bacto your game and put shove the hot soldering iron in your pocket!

    MITSeaPerch says: Jul 23, 2009. 1:27 PM REPIt's a dan erous situation, this is why this uses the cold heat iron, so it cools off before you can even et it in your pocket.

    Shadow Ops says: Jul 23, 2009. 10:20 AM REPI really hated the Coldheat... The brittle tips kept breaking, and I couldn't do micro soldering easily...

    capn_midnight says: Jul 20, 2009. 9:48 AM REPYour sentence, "Hack your alligator clip wire leads (or crocodile clip leads for those of you in FL)" makes no sense. Florida has alligators, not crocodiles.

    arduinoe says: Jul 23, 2009. 9:03 AM REPmeh , there both big , long and dnagerous , this reminds me of something...

    agis68 says: Jul 23, 2009. 2:55 AM REPtechnicalities my friend! ;)))

    capn_midnight says: Jul 23, 2009. 9:31 AM REPUhm, I hope you can appreciate the value of paying the utmost attention to "technicalities" when dealing with basically anything related to thepurpose of this site. I'm just sayin , takin a laissez faireapproach to technicalities is how one ets a 120V surprise.

    iculus says: Jul 20, 2009. 5:17 PM REPI suppose I got this wrong. I think I had begun typing one thing, edited it, and forgot to run the coherence checker.

    mettaurlover says: Jul 21, 2009. 9:57 PM REPthey have a coherence checker?

    Rimwulf says: Jul 23, 2009. 7:03 PM REPapparently they do http://www.lcc.uma.es/~duran/ChC/

    mettaurlover says: Jul 23, 2009. 7:59 PM REPyay!

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  • 8/9/2019 Pocket Sized Soldering Kit Cold Heat Hack

    16/16

    qballcat says: Jul 22, 2009. 7:34 PM REPyup, and someone wrote gullible at the top of this ible'

    mettaurlover says: Jul 22, 2009. 8:00 PM REPno; i was just wonderin cause it would be nice if they did, in fact, have one.

    qballcat says: Jul 22, 2009. 9:16 PM REPoh, lolz

    bustedit says: Jul 20, 2009. 10:37 AM REPi think he was being politically correct so as not to insult the alligators.you wasted your time arguing semantics, and i just wasted time replying to you.

    tongpu says: Jul 23, 2009. 8:41 AM REPFirst off: this is @ing amazing!

    _

    Second: I'm just wearing underwear, what pocket will I fit it in...

    ...oh, god......no...**

    arduinoe says: Jul 23, 2009. 9:02 AM REP

    make sure its not on , oh and customs might get a bit funny if you have a soldering iron up uz a**

    notveryreal says: Jul 20, 2009. 8:59 PM REPI heard cold heat soldering wasn't good, compared to the old standby..:/

    iculus says: Jul 21, 2009. 9:52 AM REPIt's definitely not a replacement for the old fashioned method, but in a pinch, if your soldering job is small enough, it can work well. I have no intention oreplacing my weller any time soon though.

    locofocos says: Jul 21, 2009. 9:53 PM REPIt doesn't work if you try to put the solder on the iron, then try to apply it to the joint as I had sadly been doing for so long. After i actually learned hoto solder, it actually does work.

    magickaldan says: Jul 20, 2009. 7:24 AM REPI have one of these cold heats and always hated how big they were.

    magickaldan says: Jul 20, 2009. 7:25 AM REPAlso Great instructable.

    iculus says: Jul 20, 2009. 5:18 PM REPThanks a lot.

    jam BD says: Jul 20, 2009. 5:23 AM REPSmall is beautiful... Ha Ha Ha well done =D

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