Homebrew PCBs

a new tip doesn't cost that much, that's probably why.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Stefan Trethan 
<stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:52:07 -0000, Phil <phil1960us@y...> 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