[sdiy] Perverse Nature of Equipment...

[patchell]

    I can't believe it...the heating element in my WTCPT Weller Iron
just died...just when I needed it not to fail me.  Doing some last
minute work on stuff I am going to bring to the below meet.  Similar
thing happeded last June...while finishing up the Mikado, my crimping
tool broke.  A new iron should be here on Wed...(fortunatly a
replacement iron is not overly expensive...I could have replaced the
heater for $15, but after looking at this thing, over 20 years old, it
seemed best to replace it, the plastic is cracking, the cord is showing
signs of wear...).

    At least I have a backup...my old Ungar soldering pencil that I have
had since Junior High School (it started out life as a wood burning set
I got for christmas from a relative, I removed the wood burning heater
and replaced it with a soldering iron heater...well, actually several
times...).  I haven't use the thing since 1976...

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 -Jim
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