On Thu, 28 May 2009, William Donzelli wrote:
?I once knew a
guy who soldered kits together by running back and forth
between his kitchen stove and the table with a flat-blade screwdriver. ?I
don't know if he ever actually completed anything.
Old school.
I have an old Popular Mechanics or somesuch book from the 1940s that
described "normal" soldering irons as things that you heat up in a
benchtop furnace.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu
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