MOTM

Wow, it's pretty hard to melt switches. It almost sounds like your iron is 
not hot enough and / or does not have enough mass to heat the connection 
and the solder quickly.  This will cause you to have to leave the iron on 
the connection too long in order to melt the solder, and you will overheat 
the switch or any other part.  700 F is a good temp for the iron.

-dave-

At 06:13 PM 2/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I've had a different problem.  Those damn switches don't seem to like the
>heat of a soldering iron.  I noticed on a number of occasions after soldering
>leads to a switch and then flipping the switch up and down, it didn't make a
>positive clicking feel in one of the directions.  Checking continuity even
>confirmed that the switches weren't working right.  I would have to flip the
>switch on and off a whole bunch of times before it would self correct.  One
>switch I was sure I would have to replace but after about 100 toggles it
>finally fixed itself.  I don't know what's going on internally, but I now be
>careful to solder them as fast a possible and get the hell out of there.