Customer Reviews for Coleman PMS7000 Cordless Cold Heat Soldering Tool

Coleman PMS7000 Cordless Cold Heat Soldering Tool

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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Coleman PMS7000 Cordless Cold Heat Soldering Tool

Customer Review: Avoid this product.
Summary: 1 Stars

I thought I'd try this product since it seemed like a neat idea. What a mistake. For starters, the plastic latch tab on the molded plastic case broke immediately. I decided no big deal. A rubber band would do the trick there.

So, I got down to soldering a 24 awg stranded wire to a small solder pad on a circuit board. Frustrating experience. The tip, even though I applied really no pressure at all, chipped and eroded away ad the little spark fired off. At this rate, you'd go through $10 tips really fast. That alone didn't impress me. You have to get the tip seated against the solder point fairly precisely for the tip to begin heating. If you can't manage it, the tip won't stay heated. Once you get it heated, it barely melts solder. The tip also repels the solder, which makes wetting the connection very difficult. After about 10 minutes of trying to get this very basic connection complete, the light went out. Hm. I noticed the batteries rattled around in the case like they were lose - Not held in place within the battery compartment. Sure enough, the batteries were not being help by the battery terminals - The typical spring pressure contacts you find in most AA battery holders. I decided to open it up and see what happened. The spring terminals heated up to the point where they lost their temper and had not ability to clamp the batteries in place. I also noticed that the batteries, even after a number of minutes during dis-assembly, were really hot. I mean REALLY hot.

Stay away from this one at ANY price.

Customer Review: terrible, terrible product
Summary: 1 Stars

This thing is horrible and doesn't work for anything. It won't heat up wires 1/16 diameter, and smaller wires loose thier heat before you can touch the solder to it. It won't even melt solder directly.
The white LED light turns off once it makes a connection with your work, so don't think it's going to be a good working light!

Waste of money

Customer Review: Save Your Money!
Summary: 1 Stars

Don't buy this product.
Coleman has many good products; but what a shame to even sell this one.

Cons:
- too hard to use. Very frustrating. You almost need to be a surgeon to use this. I have to change the tip position all the time just to start the heating process.
- expensive for something that will likely end up on your next garage sale
- tip is too big
- has a warning that the tip breaks easily (because it sure does breaks easily)

Pros:
- wireless (But it doesn't work!!!)
- nice built in LED light
- nice case

Customer Review: Great gift for xmas. But not how you'd think...
Summary: 1 Stars

If you haven't already, don't buy this thing, at any price, even steeply discounted. It is in all seriousness, absolutely worthless for it's intended purpose. For anyone without a little mad scientist in them, and doesn't know this already, if you run even a very little power across a graphite pencil lead, it gets very very hot, very very fast. This is basicly the principle on which this tool operates. The point is split in two, joined by a sliver of some no conductive material. And when the two sides are shorted by touching a metalic surface, it does heat up rapidly. Unfortunetly, while in theory it sounds like it would work great, it usually succeeds only in incenerating the contact points on the soldering tip, making little sparks, and breaking away bits of the tip, usually having no usable effect whatsover on the solder. I wouldn't get near anything a value with this tool. All that said though, if you, like me, have already had the misfortune of purchasing this or receiving it as a gift, don't dispair, it's not a total loss. By simply pulling off the removable/replacable soldering tip, and throwing it away, you have a really nice, fully functional small christmas tree light bulb tester. They wouldn't fit the socket & contacts better if it had been made for that purpose all along. And the AA batteries provide just the right amount of power.