VERY GOOD POINT, Mark!
And yes, I do the very same. Just a 'touch' of added solder to 'wet'
the cleaned tip AND to provide that needed means of transferring heat
from one point to the next.
A 'dry' soldering iron tip WILL eventually transfer the heat, BUT a
'wetted' tip will accomplish the heat transfer MANY TIMES FASTER and
with less chance of 'frying' something in the process (component OR
PC board trace).
Good catch pal.
Thanks,
73,
Tom N0SS
At 02:13 PM 11/22/2006, Mark Baugh wrote:
I agree with all Tom has stated, but to add a bit
more(I didn't see mention of this), after cleaning the
tip well I will dab just a touch of solder to the
right before touching the joint to establish a
"bridge." This helps the transfer of heat quickly to
the joint so that you're not applying heat too long to
that high quality but fragile circuit board. Too much
heat for too long is a disaster to any pcb. My $.02
73,
Mark Baugh
W5EZY
Grenada MS
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