The old fashioned soldering Irons had a big piece of copper, pointed to aid soldering, held in an iron shaft, becasue iron transfers heat much slower than copper, pressed into a wooden handle. Strike while the Iron's hot is what a blacksmith must do to shape and weld iron - only when really hot!!! If the iron cooled down, shaping and welding were impossible.... Greetings from Andy Mathison [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: soldering "iron", was Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: SMD soldering
2009-10-17 by Andrew Mathison