We're getting old, folks...

Anyway. Imagine. There you are under your panel trying to solder a wire to a lug. You hold the wire firmly in place with your left hand and manipulate the soldering iron into position with your right hand. Wiggle things around to keep the little red light on. When the joint gets hot, you apply the solder with your third hand.

And this differs from regular soldering how?

Jose
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On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:14:09 GMT, Jose
wrote:

Anyway. Imagine. There you are under your panel trying to solder a wire to a lug. You hold the wire firmly in place with your left hand and manipulate the soldering iron into position with your right hand. Wiggle things around to keep the little red light on. When the joint gets hot, you apply the solder with your third hand.

And this differs from regular soldering how?

With the soldering gun you are far more likely to be injured from a
burn.

With this device you are far more likely to be injured from the chain
reaction of 1. Getting frustrated, 2. Getting ****ed!, 3. Throwing
something due to item #2, 4. Hitting hand/fingers while in act of
throwing, 5. Hitting head on underside of panel hard enough to require
stitches while instinctively raising up to cuss at full volume in
reaction to hand damage, 6. Damage to back requiring more stitches,
caused while flailing about trying to get out from under panel with
precious bodily fluids running in eyes from step 5 caused by step 4
caused by step 3 caused by step 2 which came from step one, which was
due to being too cheap the hire someone qualified to do the job in the
first place.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Jose

With the soldering gun you are far more likely to be injured from a
burn.

With this device you are far more likely to be injured from the chain
reaction of 1. Getting frustrated, 2. Getting ****ed!, 3. Throwing
something due to item #2, 4. Hitting hand/fingers while in act of
throwing,


As a lad I worked part time at a TV repair shop (they were cost effective to
repair at one time . I remember the shop owner telling me how dangerous
CRTs and power supplies were to the hands; often resulting in broken bones
and bad cuts. "How does shock cause that?" I asked. "Oh, it's not the
shock - that's usually harmless. It's your reaction causing you to slam your
hand on sharp objects."

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
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

"George Patterson" wrote

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.

Plus the fact that the dot of solder on the tip will deform around the
object you are working on to aid in rapid and efficient heat transfer.

It also seems like the cold solder gun depends on having the object you are
soldering having about the correct resistance to make the appropriate amount
of heat.

Thanks for the review, all. I thought there would be major problems, and it
looks like I was right. I'll stick with my soldering gun/iron/butane torch.
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Jim in NC