Homebrew PCBs

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:52:07 -0000, Phil <phil1960us@...> wrote:

> every tip I ever ground wound up with massive pits in it after maybe
> 2 hrs of total soldering time.  My hakko has got probably 10X that
> time and after one wipe on the wet sponge, it looks the same as the
> day I bought it.
>


I agree totally on this. bare copper tips are horrible...
there is solder with 2% copper in it out there, with that they last much 
longer.

Has anyone thought of galvanizing a tip with iron?
I read the solder tips are iron coated, maybe it is possible to make that
at home for very special shapes...
Not information available on galvanizing on iron...
I wonder why this is not popular ;-)

ST