In message , Mike Barnes
writes
In uk.d-i-y, Stephen Howard wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:06:58 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:
And the mine boggles as to why I might want to wrap solder around the end of
a pencil.

To stop you from chewing it.
Plus, you always know where you can find a bit of solder when you need
it.

Simpler answers:

chewing the pencil - just don't do it
finding solder - it's where you left it

Most people don't have any problem with those things, AFAIK.

He could be getting mixed up with the way that some people coil solder
around a pencil and then feed the end through the middle



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geoff