"Eric" On Fri, 27 Aug 2004
06:47:23 +1200, "Eric" wrote:

Most of us, because we were taught that way, use a wet sponge.

But the local university says, you should never use a wet sponge.



Has anybody got a better way and maybe the tips last longer?

a wet sponge serves several uses during the soldering process..
1-it helps to keep the tip of the hot iron clean by ..quickly..moving
the tip across the sponge surface..this simple act causes the
impurities to be rubbed off the tip..
2-it acts to temporarily reduce the tip temperature to prevent harmful
vapors to continue burning from the tip tremperature
3-it promotes clean and shiny solder connections..which help to
prevent contaminated solder joints..
4-the military and nasa..teach the use of a wet sponge in their
soldering methods
5-so does the IPC organization
and finally..it irritates the hell out of a university..when you don't
see things their way..but then..what could you possibly expect from a
"teaching?" organization

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