"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:31:24 -0500, wrote:

I have one of those so-called "cold" soldering irons too - 2 AA
batteries -and it is cold all right - have never been able to solder
anything with the useless piece of junk.

I bought one to solder the 12ga wires in my attic when I put up the
emergency lighting. It didn't even tin one wire by itself. Grrr.

They're good for anything up to 89 gauge wire and a 1-surface pad.
Forget thru pads or anything real. sigh

Luckily, I got a buck more for mine when I sold it than I had paid on
eBaaaah. sheepish grinne

I was NOT talking about a "cold" soldering iron. The battery one I got is a
regular iron, and it heats the tip when you hold the button slide forward.
I still wouldn't use it for a 12 ga solder joint, but it works fine for
small stuff. I suspect its around 15-20 watts based on how it performs. I
used to have a low power 25 watt corded one back in the days before thin-net
was affordable and ethernet was even known about to most people for making
up 25 pin LapLink cables. We transferred a lot of data over a parallel port
at about 400K with them. Heck, I sold a lot of parallel transfer cables
for that matter. It wasn't elegant, but it worked.











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