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versapak:

--- Quote ---I was doing simple hobbiest wiring when mine suffered the meltdown.  It was not a "marathon".

The soldering I was doing was well within the limits stated in the instructions.  I did not have the iron on a joint for more than 3 seconds.  I didn't do more than two joints in sucession.  There was a minute or two while I crimped the next pair of wires.  I did not have a short between the halves of the split tip.
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Not to call you a liar, but...


Your story is fishy. :p


I used mine pretty non-stop (until the batteries drained) desoldering all the buttons on my control panel. The tip did become hot to the touch, but it did still it cooled in a minute.

Never was the plastic or anythingother than the tip too hot to touch. Even the tip was touchable, as long as it was not sustained.



I suspect, if your story really is as such, that you actually had a bad unit.









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