Weller has led the way in soldering technology, from patenting the "Magnastat" temperature-controlled soldering iron in 1959 to expanding its global reach with advanced automation, connectivity, and ...

Creative] has a soldering gun project doing just this ... All the parts come from scrap electronics, the main transformer is three ferrite cores with a piece of copper busbar as the secondary.

[SPman] sent in this diy pulse soldering iron. It heats up in 5 seconds ... it would definitely be handy for larger wiring jobs. The transformer is hand wound, and an oscillation driver forms ...