"Cold heat" soldering?

[Joe R.]

 My "favorite" part is at the beginning when the idiot can't solder his
item because the power cord is too short. I guess it never occurred to them
that a soldering iron is a PORTABLE device and can be moved! They should
call these things "idiot-mercails". Idiots wrote them, idiots play the part
of real people and only an idiot would believe them!

   Joe


At 11:12 PM 1/12/05 -0600, you wrote:
>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
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>Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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>>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?
>>  
>>
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