On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:10:22 -0000, "Arfa Daily"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

"Franc Zabkar" wrote in message
.. .

I notice you referred to it as "one of my bench irons". It would have
been interesting had it been your only iron. ;-)

- Franc Zabkar
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Ha! Yes, I suppose it would ... Fortunately, I have another fixed temp
Antex, and the Weller with the permanently burnt-out tip (see thread from a
few weeks ago)

I don't know why I took the holiday in the first place. I've been back a
couple of days, and feel as knackered now as before I went. Roll on
Christmas ... :-)

Arfa

My current iron had an intermittent heating fault from new. Ironically
[pun intended] the problem was a dry solder joint. I fixed it by
holding the joint closed with an insulated rod and allowing the iron
to warm up. I then unplugged it and used the residual heat to reflow
the joint.

In your case I would have held a good cap in parallel with the bad one
until the tip warmed up.

- Franc Zabkar
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