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Originally Posted by txusa03
I would not know the difference...I probably melt the damn board with either one.  probably cause self inflicted pain as well with them. This is going over board, but could I request a video DIY on this? |
Sorry for the delay in responding.
The difference between a soldering iron and a soldering gun is the gun looks like a drill. It has a trigger and instead of a chuck it has what looks like a wire that loops something like the shape of Oklahoma. The "panhandle" is the hot tip that does the work. An iron on the otherhand looks something like a curling iron with a electric cord out one end and a very hot bar on the other end (when it's plugged in, of course) that is either ground to a chisel shaped tip or looks like the tip of a pencil.
The gun is good for splicing wires together but pretty useless on a circuit board. There you would best use a pencil tip or small, quarter-inch chisel tip.