"Cold heat" soldering?

[Tom Hudson]

My favorite part of the TV ad is where people are gushing about how they 
won't get burned by this soldering iron.  You know, if you can't use a 
freakin' soldering iron without burning your eye out or something, you 
shouldn't be using it at all.  I have soldered millions of joints and 
can count the number of times I've burned myself on one hand.  (Of 
course, it's the hand I didn't burn off with my trusty "normal" 
soldering iron...)

-Tom

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>The commercials on TV that I was seeing a few weeks ago seemed to think
>that ordinary people like housewives and weekend fix it up schlubs would
>somehow find a use for a soldering iron.  They showed the hands of a lady
>soldering some piece of kitchen ware and some doofus doing some very light
>repair (broken battery wire or something equally lame) on some gadget.
>And I'm like, yeah right.  Who fixes anything these days (I'm being
>rhetorical, Tony) and what of anything that's made today is conducive to
>being repaired in the home with a soldering iron?
>  
>

-- 
Thomas Hudson
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