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I was taught that leaving the sponge soaking wet like that was a mistake, and it should be squeezed out so it is just damp.  You don't want to be sticking the tip in water.

Yes sir thanks after watching that I remembered so many times waiting for what seemed like an eternity for solder to melt.
:grr especially outside sitting there sweating or whatever
Or the solder melts and it's this big blob that sticks to the tip and it refuses to go where I want it to so it's like a booger on your finger you can't get off  :grr  :lmao:
Also wow I also used to think that every soldering iron tip had to look like an ice pick  :lmao:
(I know somewhere those ice pick tips have a purpose but idk what it is)

xP

Quote from: g1 on July 16, 2025, 11:21:37 AMI was taught that leaving the sponge soaking wet like that was a mistake, and it should be squeezed out so it is just damp.  You don't want to be sticking the tip in water.

Same here.  That said, the rest of the video seems to have good tips.  Interestingly, I learned all these methods on my own from trial and error.  This would have gone a LONG way back in 2004 for me when I started doing this stuff.

That video would not have helped me the first time my dad stuck a soldering iron in my hands, we didn't have the internet back in the 1960's
 :lmao:  :lmao:

How about having to look in the school 🎒 library for a book to check out covering the how-to's and if that comes up empty go to the public library  xP  :grr