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Article #273Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
From: John Slade
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:13
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:13
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On 8/3/2010 9:57 AM, Steve Fenwick wrote:
> In article<Xns9DC91AB3EABD0HHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247>,
> Dustin<bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> John Slade<hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote in
>> news:i37va2$e0f$1@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>>> I got my start in electronics and have a background in
>>> that too. I took college courses in electronics and am no
>>> stranger to repairing circuit boards. I'm no stranger to
>>> soldering irons. Well that's what we called them. I used to
>>> repair TVs, radios and such years ago.
>>
>> Odd. I'm familiar with soldering irons as well as pencils, and we
>> typically use the pencils for detail work that the iron generates too
>> much heat for. Irons aren't good for changing out small transistors,
>> IC's or caps due to the risk of damage, and especially these days with
>> a pile of components nearby the one that has to be replaced; a pencil
>> is the only way to safely do it. Lower wattage, less heat.
>>
>
> It might be a regionalism, or a Britishism/Americanism. In over 20 years
> I've never used, or heard used, "soldering pencil" in a lab in the U.S.,
> although I am familiar with the term. It's always been "soldering iron",
> whether a giant thing to solder heavy cables, or a tool suited to tiny
> ICs and SMT parts.
Yea I've always used "soldering iron" as well no matter
the size.
John
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