"N_Cook" wrote in message
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Intermittant failure to heat.
Not due to failing switch, but original plastic stress-relief sheathing at
the blue body gone hard with age and causing stress to cable and then a
conductor break. Makes you wonder where all that plasticiser migrates to,
presumably us , quite a bit.

If you're going to use a Cooper Tools iron - keep a cheap Antex X25 iron
ready to hand for all the times it'll need repairing.