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by ssl-3
648 days ago
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I mean... Here I am soldering in the field with my fancy microprocessor-controlled portable soldering iron. I've been using it with 63/37 and doing SMD work, but in front of me now I've got a big wire on a 1/4" TS plug to work on that was put together with lead-free solder and I simply need a higher temperature in order for anything to melt. I never expected an audio tech in the US to use lead-free solder for anything, ever, but here I am anyway. So now, I've got choices. Do I find a computer to plug my soldering iron into so I can reprogram it? Do I use the $170 temperature control (more than twice the cost of the iron itself) that I left on the bench for safe keeping? Or do I see this situation in advance, and buy seemingly any other temperature-controlled portable soldering iron instead? |
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