and here i am using this:

though i havent even used it yet actiually, still just sitting there  

my old one is just about the same concept, the only guts it has is a transformer, a 555 timer, a transistor, an LED, a resistor for that LED, a potentiometer, and a cap to combine with that potentiometer and the 555 timer to complete a crude timing circuit.

Yeah, I'll just get whatever is laying around here. I don't even know

Save yourself some money and just get a metal coat hangar and a butane torch

@OnyxArmos to solder things?

@OnyxArmos in this specific case, the soldering iron's first job is modifying a projector

soldering is a meas of "glueing" electrical connections, by means of melting an alloy of lead and tin over the contacts.

300? Maybe for soldering a single wire?