[sdiy] Good news -- the ICM7556 dual timer made it!

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 04:44 pm, Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
> what's wrong with that ?

Who said anything was wrong with it?  Only thing that got me was that back 
then that was the _ONLY_ way to solder...

> --- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
> > When I took "Radio-TV Shop" in high school we used 100W irons.  But that
> > was nothing compared to the unit that my grandfather had,  the "tip" was a
> > _pound_ of copper,  connected by over a foot of iron pipe to a wooden
> > handle. You'd heat that thing up in a charcoal brazier,  and then stick
> > the tip into a block of ammonium chloride "flux" to solder something.