My very nice 60W Hakko ceramic-core soldering iron that I use for stained glass can only hit 1100F, which is already far too hot to do anything useful. 60/40 tin-lead solder melts at 370F (IIRC), and ...

For most of us, the first soldering iron we pick up to start working on electronics has essentially no features at all. Being little more than resistive heaters plugged straight into the wall with ...

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