[vcf-midatlantic] VCF East Clinic kudos

[Neil Cherry]

On 4/30/22 18:44, Jonathan Chapman via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> Did someone just goof around and see how much fresh solder they could suck
>> up into the thing?
> 
> Heh, Crawford is just picking on himself, he hadn't used a Hakko before and didn't know you try to keep the tip (metallic/flux) dry -- that's why they recommend the brass wool cleaner, it scrapes it clean. He dunked the tip in flux as one does with a soldering iron, to clean it. The Hakko runs at 750 *F and basically instantly carbonized it into a plug. Fortunately, CDL has a numbers drill set and we used one of the little ones to clean it out. As luck would have it, the proper tool for that (a small drill in a pin vise) got left at the shop!
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan

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