From: charlie@xxx.net   
      
   On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:43:51 -0400, Bob Engelhardt   
    wrote as underneath :   
      
   >Thanks for the replies!   
   >   
   >I know a copper tip doesn't last as long as the iron(?) plated Weller   
   >ones, but I thought that it was that copper dissolves in the solder.   
   >The tip about plating with silver solder was brilliant.  I refined my   
   >tip like that.  And I got a big blob which I filed to the shape I wanted.   
   >   
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   Also I forgot to mention, if you need much more rigidity than the copper   
   gives you - you can up the gauge a bit and use brass wire (silver solder   
   tip now more essential), check Watts to see you got it about right! C+   
      
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