[Elecraft] soldering_iron_tip_cleaner.pdf

[Tom Hammond]

Fellas:

I don't THINK any of us are advocating using steel wool to regularly clean 
soldering iron tips.

Here's what several of us have been talking about:

   http://home.earthlink.net/~n0ss/soldering_iron_tip_cleaner.pdf

73,

Tom   N0SS

W1EUY wrote:

>I'm not sure I'd go for a Brillo pad for this use.  Brillo pads are a 
>reasonably fine steel wool pad (maybe 0 or 00 grit) that is permeated with 
>a scouring soap.  I don't recall from my many trips through the UK (or at 
>least Cornwall) seeing such in the Safeway or Sainsbury or Tesco or the 
>like.  But I would fear a Brillo pad could leave a film on the iron.  It's 
>scouring soap requires a good deal of rinsing when used to scour pots.  A 
>regular steel wool pad would accomplish the same end without the soap. 
>But, of course, in line with my last post, a simple paper towel can't be beat.