Homebrew PCBs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Piers Goodhew" <piers@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:55 AM
Subject: soldering "iron", was Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: SMD soldering


>I thought Wikipedia would have the answer, but it does not.
>
> I'm guessing it predates soldering - as we have clothes "irons" (which
> may have actually been iron (wikipedia again deficient)) and the
> phrase "strike while the iron is hot" - which I take to mean a
> branding iron and they usually are iron 'cos that's what guys on farms
> have handy.

That phrase relates to blacksmithing - the iron has to be hot when shaping 
it with a hammer.

Leon