"Cold heat" soldering?

In message <200501121731.JAA02808(a)clulw009.amd.com> "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com> wrote: It wasn't falling - it was laying on a desk. I picked it up, but I picked up the wrong end. Sizzle sizzle... Now I've got a solder station - unfortunately dropping the iron tends to drag the solder station with it, until the DIN plug pops out, at which point the iron plummets to the floor, usually landing tip-first. That does not do much good for the heating element... I've had soldering irons burn out due to the quantities of burnt flux and such that accumulate on the element after a while. The element gets insanely hot, then the ceramic element shatters. Thankfully my solder station seems to be a little more resistant to that sort of damage. %DEITY knows what would happen if the sensor went dead-short though... Later. -- Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB, philpem(a)philpem.me.uk | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice, http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI ... I've got 256K of RAM, so why can't I run Windows 3.1?