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echo: rberrypi
to: NOSPAM@NTLWORLD.COM
from: JAN PANTELTJE
date: 2018-06-26 15:26:00
subject: Re: Soldering iron

On a sunny day (Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:10:37 +0100) it happened Rob Morley
 wrote in :

>On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:41:54 GMT
>Jan Panteltje  wrote:
>
>> Removing solder from your jeans is easy,
>> Cotton is OK, it is harder from nylon or polyester based stuff :-)
>
>Just don't get used to wiping on your jeans and one day forget you're
>wearing shorts.  :-o
>
>> When soldering on the Pi (If you MUST, you should not have to)
>
>You do if you bought one without GPIO header pins.
>
>> beware
>> of static discharge, do not use one of those directly mains powered
>> irons etc. And do not use a soldering gun, somebody enthusiastically
>> told me, hey I bough a soldering gun, now I can do...
>>
>The main thing I use my soldering gun for is cutting thermoplastics.

That is now what I use the eroded Weller tip for,
it does fit into the LS50, temperature controlled
hole making and cutting.

But really, dremel is better and does not smell so much.

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