Published on March 31, 2017
I was looking for soldering bits on ebay and saw this very cheap iron that obviously wasn’t grounded. So I bought one for us to take a look inside.
Sorry for the rude jump-cut in the middle of the video that soiled all the juicy teardown goodness. The iPad decided to curtail the recording due to low memory, which is reasonable enough. Although there would be a lot more memory for video if it wasn’t filled with no-choice “apps”.
You can toss Big Clive a dollar for coffee and cookies at
I’m not going to provide a link to the iron, since the lack of a ground connection makes it a bit shady for electronic work.
