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Andrew Gabriel
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54 year soldering iron.
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I dont understand why most users today seem to think they cant file
the tip once it needs it. The iron plating is to make it take longer
to reach this point, but once it does need filing, doing so is not in
any way a problem. You then have a copper tip, as people have been
using perfectly successfully for the last century or so. Its a real
non issue. You can file that sucker once every few years and it'll
last decades.
When a lump of copper oxide gets stuck to pin 4 of your octal
valve base, it didn't much matter. When it gets stuck to pin
4 of your microprocessor, it will be shorting out pins 1 to 20
as well ;-)
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