3 Oct
2007
3 Oct
'07
10:56 p.m.
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 13:49, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Fred Cisin wrote:
I'd rather my tips not oxidize.
Peace... Sridhar
That's why I built a little box with a couple of switches, a couple of neon
indcators, and a couple of rectifier diodes...
One switch turns it on and off. The other cuts the power to half, which I
leave it on for "standby". And with a 45W element holding a 1/8" chisel
tip,
they last a LONG time for me. Years, even, depending on what I'm doing.
Lots of salvage with a solder sucker seems to eat 'em up quicker.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I suppose
I have a lot of practice, but I can strip, order, cut and
crimp and RJ45 for ethernet in about 30 seconds. It takes longer than
that for my iron to warm up.
only because you've been turning it off or unplugging it between uses.