Re: My soldering iron tip broke!

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 05:09:34 GMT, Lupi Zopi
<nospamforzelda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>PMG wrote:
>
>> My soldering iron tip broke! That's never happened to me before.
>
>Too much spinach, Popeye!

I HATE spinach! Those old B&W Popeye toons were great though.

When I was a kid, once in a while I had to eat that kind of spinach
that came out of cans. Putting the stuff in my mouth made me want to
puke instantly! Man that stuff was bad!! And spinach freaks like to
say that fresh spinach tastes better, but Popeye was eating it out of
cans.

>
>> I have several Ruby 25/25 caps that I bought for my Rangemaster based
>> pedal. So I wanted to replace what I put in my SF Bassman a couple
>> years back, and also get the correct 1.5K resistor values in there
>> too.
>>
>> So I'm busy de-soldering the old stuff, and all of a sudden... the tip
>> bends on me! (ok... it didn't break per say)
>
>I've never had that happen. Are you using a Rat Shack iron?

It's a Weller... I forget what model, soldering station.

But I was using this de soldering tool that I bought at Rat Shack
about 25 years ago. One of those things with a spring loaded piston.
So there's this jolt when it sucks the solder, and that seems to be
what bent the tip. But it has to have been weakened, from whatever.
Probably result of operator error or something.

>
>> So I went and dug up my spare tips, but all I had was these two tiny
>> tips that must be for PCBs, which made it really hard to finish the
>> job.
>>
>> The amp seems to sound a lot better now anyhow though.
>
>Egad, bending soldering iron tips adds to amp mojo?!?

I hope not. It'll take me another five years to bend another one.

Putting the proper values back in the amp didn't hurt though.

>
>> I hope my local hardware store has some tips like the one I just bent.
>
>Hmmm, a TrueValue soldering iron... are those made in a Rat Shack
>Chinese sweatshop?
>
>8^)

Our True Value store was driven out of business by a local corrupt
plaza owner who wanted a Sears Hardware store instead. But the idiots
running the Sears Hardware store decided that they'd rather be an
appliance store. There's still an Ace on the other side of town
though.

Pete


--
I saved your mechanical man from certain damnation.
For his frail, electronic eyes had gazed upon the impenetrable!
He was an unwilling beholder to the impossible!
--Dr. Orpheus

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