Monday, March 10, 2008

Holding items to be soldered

How's this for ingenious ?! From a 50 year old edition of Model Railway Constructor - used half a potato to hold items being soldered.

In the days when your iron was a lump of metal heated on a gas flame, temperature control wasn't an option so if the metal heated up you had to deal with it. This way you get to hold the spud and save the burned fingers.

Mind you, I'm not sure how easy it would be to push delicate etched parts into your average King Edward but it's worth thinking about.

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