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post #31 of 32
11/2/09 at 1:56am
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It's a bad workman that blames his tools. Once you get the concept of cleanliness and technique, you can solder with anything that gets hot enough. I have made acceptable solder connections with a nail and a Bic lighter before.
Maybe that's true, but in order to have "anything that gets hot enough", you need an iron that maintains it's temp. If you take a cheap iron to a large ground plane it'll cool really fast and you'll lose the ability to make good connections, etc. You can't tell me that the bic and nail was as easy to use as a Hakko or Metcal, no matter how skilled you are.
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post #32 of 32
11/3/09 at 8:14am
yup definately buying a soldering station soon, my butane iron burns everything around it -.-'
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