Atten ST1509 / 9100 Hot Tweezers

Finally found some affordable hot tweezers that work. ATTEN ST1509 solder station and 9100 Tweezers.

[@advancedleveldiagnostics]

Thanks for the review, I was looking for affordable tweezers!

[@watahyahknow]

good to know thanks for the info found out they made spade tips for ic removal too

[@radius.indrawan]

Congratulations for the new hot tweezers! This Atten tweezers surely does the job a lot better than those cheap ones, and it looks awesome too. 👍

[@indikaprabash8084]

Thank you,great information. CHEERS FROM DENMARK 🇩🇰

[@Tech-Relief]

Glad it was helpful!

[@witchdoc94]

I confirm, I have the same model and working with it is a real pleasure !

[@Tech-Relief]

Yes, I like the quality so I decided to order the soldering pencils 50 Watt, 130 Watt and 150 Watt for testing as well. I will do a video when I have these.

[@dlopezgo9060]

@@Tech-Relief Please. I'm waiting for your review of those pencils

[@Tech-Relief]

@@dlopezgo9060 Yes, I am waiting for some deliveries from ATTEN and also from AliExpress and it seems to be taking more time than I was hoping. It is supposed to get here before Nov 11 it says.

[@nozynoz]

Cheers for the video, very well explained. So I made a purchase with extra handle.

[@Tech-Relief]

Glad it helped

[@dorfschmidt4833]

Atten seems good, have the hot air station from Atten. Prices are went up.

[@grahamnichols1416]

I just use two pencil irons.Way cheaper.

[@northwestrepair]

So it's stays hot all the time instead of becoming ready when pulled out ? That sucks

[@Tech-Relief]

It is exactly like a soldering iron, if you do not touch the tweezers for a programmable number of seconds it will turn off and go into standby mode automatically waking up when you remove the tweezers from the stand. Is that what you were asking?

[@platinumsteel6458]

My friend thanks a million for this hot tweezers video.I was looking all over for a reasonably priced one that is as good as the expensive ones. And you definitely found it.I will buy this one for sure.One question tho.Do you think the tip of the soldering tweezers is small enough to maybe work on Iphone boards with tiny capacitors?

[@Tech-Relief]

Yes, there are three sizes available. The smallest is definitely suitable for the small SMD components and is the size of the default tweezers supplied with the soldering station, the larger ones can be used for large components and connectors. www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804222701170.html Note that I do not necessarily recommend the store related to the link above; in fact I bought some of mine recently from ATTEN direct, they were cheaper but shipping can be more expensive since they use DHL.

[@electrolatif]

Thank you for sharing this video

[@Tech-Relief]

My pleasure

[@emil8367]

Thanks for sharing info about this hot tweezers ! Very useful. Can you share also information about temperature which you used eg at 8:34 ?

[@Tech-Relief]

usually 350 to 400 Celsius depending on if the component is on a ground plane or not.

[@emil8367]

@@Tech-Relief Thanks ! What do you think, if there would be 2 mm x 1.25 mm capacitor to desolder instead, what type of iron tip and temperature should be used ?

[@Tech-Relief]

@@emil8367 I use a chisel tip which has two opposing flat sides. It depends on the PCB what temperature to use. A simple two layer board may only require 325 Celsius but a multi layer board like many GPUs that may have 12 or more layers and ground plains you may need 350 to 400 Celsius and may need to put on some leaded solder first which has a lower melting point. A chisel tip will allow you to heat the side of the component as well as the pad on the PCB which can be important for some difficult components.

[@mm0077]

Thank you for sharing and I wonder about the Hakko tweezers?

[@Tech-Relief]

Not sure about Hakko Tweezers they look different on the image I have seen. Maybe someone else can comment on those?

[@ericdona750]

How you paid for the tweezers and can you provide site to buy them

[@xavierayayaell546]

Aliexpress, it's a Chinese brand

[@Tech-Relief]

The Station is at: www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803474681871.html and additional tweezers are at: www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804222701170.html. I think they are available from different sources as well including ATTEN direct if you contact them.

[@AztecaBeast-rq1mp]

Excelent video, question. With those tweezers SMD components are not getting damaged? and what temperature do u recomend to dont damage the SMD components?

[@Tech-Relief]

As long as you put on enough flux and perhaps some leaded solder which reduces the temperature needed to desolder I have not noticed any components being damaged. I usually set the temperature to 325 to 350 and only increase it if dealing with a multi-layer PCB with large ground planes.

[@AztecaBeast-rq1mp]

@@Tech-Relief thankz for answer, i appreciate it

[@davadoff]

@@AztecaBeast-rq1mpmaximum 350*C for rework. Yes, such a long time heating components surely damages them and will likely lift pads. It should only take a second or two heating both sides at once to melt solder. Even with cheap soldering irons.

[@ricardoferreira2811]

2 weeks later and hopefully more testing, what's the veridict? Do still recommend Atten? Thx

[@Tech-Relief]

I am waiting for some more ATTEN soldering irons and then I will do a new video to test it all. So far it works well.

[@boz89]

Do the hot tweezers have enough power to remove usb and hdmi connectors? I know the same is possible with the weller hot tweezers. Can you test it?

[@Tech-Relief]

So the tweezers come in different sizes. The ones I was using were the small ones. I ordered a larger insert for the tweezers and I am waiting for delivery of these. When I get them and also various soldering tips I ordered I will do a complete comparison of the ATTEN soldering station and look into it.

[@MyZek666]

can you hold wick with it, and clean solder on hard to reach places?

[@Tech-Relief]

I am sure you can, I personally have not tried that. Also, there are three different sizes of tweezers available, the medium sized or larger ones probably are the best for that since they can hold onto larger items like de-solder braid and have more thermal capacity.

[@mattbentley8958]

Where did you purchase the tweezers? I cannot find them anywhere.

[@Tech-Relief]

All the links are with the ATTEN station review: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnncqnaifJemhaM The tweezers are on AliExpress: www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802581014046.html

[@mattbentley8958]

@@Tech-Relief Thanks, just ordered the station with tweezers and a couple soldering irons. I appreciate your reviews.

[@electronicrepairservice2020]

Could you tell me how many pins the connector is?

[@Tech-Relief]

It has 9 pins of varying thickness. I am going to do a full review of this soldering station and will try to find out what the pinout is.

[@ariewijaya1679]

Can the tweezer work on sugon solder station?😊

[@Tech-Relief]

I have not seen a sugon solder station personally, so I do not know what kind of voltage and interface it has. I am noy aware that there is any kind of standard for the pinout of the connectors so probably it won't work. Perhaps someone else knows about this?

[@markissboi3583]

Theres a few scamers flogging these for $1k xd most sell au around 250 350$ depends what you need

[@andreiciora2765]

Can You put a link

[@electrolatif]

Is that tweezers T-9100-05i or T-9100-02i?

[@Tech-Relief]

I have the T9100-051 tweezers, which are the smaller ones and I use the most. I also have the T9100-2.2D insert which is larger and produces more heat for larger components.

[@electrolatif]

@@Tech-Relief thank you very much

[@cowboy6591]

OUT of stock, you can't find these anywhere. Save your time.

[@davadoff]

8:30 what terrible performance… it should be 3 seconds max. 10:53 such a small component should take less than 1 second and not look like you’re ripping it off the board. Friend, you should not advise people to buy this. It’s such a waste of $200. You can just use two irons or one iron tip that spans both pads (or use hot air). Soldering tweezers are a luxury. Apart from saving time with SMD rework, the point of them is to press a pedal to turn the heat off so they can handle components like regular tweezers. Or you can use them to hold a component & solder it in place (but you can do that same job with one iron & some flux). 350*C for 20 seconds - pads & tracks can get lifted and components should be thrown away after so much heat. Brand new components spec: solder 260*C for 5 seconds for reference.

[@Tech-Relief]

Not entirely sure what you are talking about. I used that board on purpose it is a board that was coated with something to seal it and was designed to go up with a weather balloon at very high altitude and it is difficult to remove components from it. Using cheap hot tweezers did not work on this board as a previous video showed. The Atten tweezers made it possible to remove the components and I use them all the time, on a standard PCB the components come off with or without flux immediately. They can be used in cramped sections of a PCB which you could not do with two soldering irons. I mean there are many ways to desolder components and you can use the method you like best for me I use the hot tweezers often and they work well for me.

[@davadoff]

@@Tech-Relief oh I didn’t realise it was covered in a conformal coating. Because KZbin is playing up, I don’t watch in HD anymore. So everything is blurry.

[@davadoff]

@@Tech-Relief have you tried using a regular soldering iron with a tip that can touch both sides of a SMD capacitor at once? The common Chinese knife tips can do it, but I’ve seen better geometries specifically designed for the job.