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Finally we get to discuss current events on this forum! Thank you :grin: and don't tell Basil!
 
Looking at that photo, the solder appears to be more appropriate for plumbing work! Instrument/electronics solder is MUCH thinner. As for what they call a soldering "iron"... I was taught that size tool is a soldering pencil. An "iron" looks more like what was put into a flame and weighed about a pound at its end. More for doing lead bodywork than fine electronics.
 
Amazes me that we still use a 5000 year old technique on 21st century electronics. The heat source has change from fire to electrical resistance, but the result is the same.

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Scale is a bit different as well. :wink:
 
I have one of these out in the shed, works great.
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Rather than relying on a computer, I've a Variac for temp control with a couple Unger soldering pencils for small electronics work. And a couple Weller guns for heavier automotive stuff. One of the Wellers is older than I am!
 
JPSmit said:
they had electricity then? :smile:
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Not sure. But it looks like a Buck Rogers ray gun and has a kite with a key attached. :smirk:
 
DrEntropy said:
... As for what they call a soldering "iron"... I was taught that size tool is a soldering pencil. ....
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Can't disagree with the logic.

But since every manufacturer of them, Weller, Hakko, Pace, etc, etc,... calls them irons, I'll stick with the convention.



DrEntropy said:
.... An "iron" looks more like what was put into a flame and weighed about a pound at its end. More for doing lead bodywork than fine electronics.
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We had those in jr. high metal shop. They had their own little furnace, separate from the one we used for forging, to heat them up. Used them for soldering in sheet metal fab.

If anybody called them soldering irons the instructor would rant at them because the heads on the ones we had were made of copper. He insisted we call them soldering coppers.
 
The iron vs pencil thing, and the iron vs copper thing, remind me of another inherited term.

"On tonight's news, we'll show some footage of the race at Wimbledon."

But if it's digital - it isn't footage! (it's tracks or minutes?)
 
NutmegCT said:
The iron vs pencil thing, and the iron vs copper thing.....
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To me it's like the motor vs. engine thing. Whichever you use everybody knows what you're talking about. So it's pointless to get into a heated debate.


NutmegCT said:
... remind me of another inherited term.

"On tonight's news, we'll show some footage of the race at Wimbledon."

But if it's digital - it isn't footage! (it's tracks or minutes?)
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You can still use "film at eleven!"

Flash memory is made by layering and etching thin films of various semiconductors and conductors.
 
I haven't seen Kung Fu in a day or two now.
 
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