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From: John Woodgate
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:15

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I read in sci.electronics.design that Richard Steven Walz
<rstevew@deeptht.armory.com> wrote (in <3dbe394e$0$22477$8eec23a@newsrea
der.tycho.net>) about 'old thread Re: DIY Soldering iron tips', on Tue,
29 Oct 2002:
>Hmmm, I wonder if you can plate or re-plate the copper ones with iron 
>using a DC supply a nail and ferric chloride in water that we keep 
>around to etch PCB's??? 

AIUI, it is unexpectedly difficult to plate iron. The plating solutions
normally used are quite complex: iron tetrafluoroborate is one salt
used. I would expect that a ferrous salt, rather than a ferric, would be
appropriate, but it may be that hydrolysis prevents proper working. 

A Google search shows that the process of iron plating copper bits is
'proprietary', and very little information is openly available about
iron plating of anything.
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From: John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk>
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Subject: Re: old thread Re: DIY Soldering iron tips
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