Homebrew PCBs

No, the resistance of the heater changes with temperature.
You need not modify it.
It is done this way in my station, only 2 wires.

ST

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> Ah,  there's the catch.  That sort of thing would mean modifying the iron
> itself,  or worse yet the element,  and I *really* don't want to go 
> there.
> At some point,  perhaps I'll stumble across a really good deal on one of
> those "soldering stations",  or perhaps not.  I had a period of several
> *years* go by here without me having fired an iron up at all,  so it's
> probably not worth my while to make any serious investment in such a 
> thing.
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