Using a Soldering Iron Stand

Video Transcript

"Hi, we're here talking about foiled glass today or copper foiling and I wanted to touch base on your soldering iron stand. This is a very important component, because it keeps your soldering iron, which gets extremely hot, from burning say your work surface or you or another child and it won't roll off of the table. As you can see, this is very sturdy and it kind of gives some lead way but it keeps the heat source encased in that wire coil so that you won't be able to burn yourself. Generally it comes like this, you have to assemble it yourself but it is very simple. You just take the base screw on the coil and it comes with a sponge. A, what you have on your sponge is just regular water and this is for cleaning your tip as you go through the process of soldering. You want to keep your tip clean so you don't have excess solder and you want to take good care of your tip. So all you would do like if you can see there is a little bit of that solder there on the end that is excess and you would just. Run it over your sponge like that and you can see it is extremely hot."