If Byard can get them, I'd highly recommend you get the cauterizer from him.
I've had the one from Bass-Pro for several years. It does have
interchangeable tips, still available at Bass-Pro. I bought the
interchangeable tip, and although having bent the original tip
several times (dropping), it straightened back out and is perfectly
serviceable. It is a one-battery model. The battery is
replaceable. I prefer it to the two-battery models because it
doesn't get as hot. In my clumsy
hands, that is an advantage. It fits my style better. The
two-battery models get instant high heat and I tend to burn things
around them I didn't intend to. (But myself..........yet!). I was
given a couple of these by a podiatrist (Buck knows who I am talking
about). I don't think they have replaceable batteries. They were
meant to be used and tossed. If you did production tying, the
instant heat feature would be nice. I have to wait a few seconds for
the single-battery model to heat up (one to ten, depending on the
freshness of the battery).
The one I like is "PowerZap" brand. But that's simply my personal
preference. Joyce prefers the two-battery model.
Obviously they both do the job well.
I have even used mine to remove the 'fuzz' from a
rod-wrapping-gone-wrong. It works about half the time. The other
half I 'zap' the winding and have to re-do the whole thing, which is
what should be done anyway!
Allan
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Allan Fish
Greenwood, IN
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