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Default Glass fibre cleaner for soldering iron tip

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
Bob Larter wrote:

Matt H R wrote:
I guess my Antex XS25 iron might be a bit too hot. It's nominally
quite hot at 390 degrees C (735 F) and could be running even
hotter.

It should be 360c.


Not if you don't have all day long to fiddle around. I never solder with
anything but 800 F. (427 C.)


That's silver-soldering temperature. If you use that for electronics,
you'd want to be damn quick with it!


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