Original Soldering Iron Tip Replacement for TS101 TS100 Mini Portable Outdoor Soldering Iron Kit (BC2-Tip)

The conical end piece finally fell off of the included tip from my Pinecil V1 (lasted for a half/lb roll of solder so not bad) and the included tip on my recent v2 purchase was doa because it never registered it even when inserted so I figured I’d try this B2 tip and see how it preforms with pinecil.Surprisingly well, is it what I’ve discovered. Thermally regulates within 4deg (displayed, at least) and stays quite stable during soldering.While soldering a few somewhat beefy pads, the iron didn’t struggle to regain temp as much after initial contact with this larger BC2 tip, I’d highly recommend it. It seems to carry more thermal mass into the initial part of soldering which makes it able to melt larger pads more quickly. Haven’t had thermal runaway happen at all.Quality seems great. It was shipped inside a protective plastic tube with rubber inserts on each end, so no issues with damage during shipping. I appreciate when manufactures make the packing protective. Overall great so far.Update: I’ve been using this tip for several months everyday, for all my soldering tasks, and it’s held up. Does much better maintaining heat meltinglarge pads than the stock conical tip included with most irons if this style. It works well, and is durable. 5 stars.update 2: This is the only tip I’ve had for the last 6mo, and have been using it almost a year now every day and it has not broken yet. I’m surprised. I don’t have a “big” soldering iron, I use the pinecil v2 still for all my soldering tasks. For the larger pads on some N-channel FET spot-welding power pcb’s I’ve been assembling and testing I often have it at the maximum temp (850deg[f]) of the pinecil.Update 3: I purchased another BC2 tip when it came back in stock, and it works great like the first one. It functions in the iron exactly the same as the first did. Good regulation within 4(deg[f]) again, (displayed) like the first one.Final verdict: It’s a durable and great functioning replacement for Pinecil soldering iron tips. That’s been my experience, at least. I’ll probably stick to these instead of having to order a whole set of originals. A little side note: I actually prefer these to the lower ohm pinecil “short” tips because, although the short tips heat more quickly, they have less mass where the element is located, (directly behind the tip) and in my experience, suffer from greater temperature fluctuations, sometimes making the iron struggle to keep up even when using a 19v laptop power adapter. I don’t mind waiting a few extra seconds for these longer tips to heat up because I prefer how they preform once fully heated vs the short tips. The short tips do heat extremely quickly, though, I will say that.

Really liked this, fits into a Penecil perfectly.

Just what I needed. Great tool.

This soldering tip is a game changer. Much more heat is transferred through the tip than through the default tip that came with the ts100. It made my rc quad build go much faster

this is a good genuine tip for the ts-100 i recommend this over the conical tip.

Like the system a lot.

Like this tool

The solder can't stick to certain parts of the tip anymore, always kept solder on the tip when not in use and never used a cold sponge. Overall just poor quality.