Jose wrote:

And this differs from regular soldering how?

Yeah, I see the smilie, but I'll answer anyway. With a regular iron or soldering
gun, you can get a bead of solder on the tip. Just get the joint hot, and the
bead flows right into it. The tip on these things doesn't get hot enough for that.

George Patterson
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