Soldering Iron

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Date: Fri Jul 25 16:17:00 2003

When I had to solder on some surface mount chips, I took a file and
filed down one of the larger tips I already had. Tapered it down to a
nice small ended tip that did the job well.

Best Regards







At 04:42 PM 7/25/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I need a precision soldering iron (long needle like tip) for electronics use,
>any suggestions?
>
>I found one made by GOOT a CS-30 in an old radio shack catalog but they no
>longer have them and I cant find a website in the US that still sells them.
>
>I have an scsi chip on an amiga addon board that got wacked in shipping and a
>few of the pins have broken off from their solder pads (its a surface mount
>chip and none of the pins are broke just desoldered). My current 23 watt
>soldering iron has a tip thats just too big for this kind of work.
>
>Thanks for any help (I assume one can be found for around $20)
Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 16:17:00 BST