At 04:46 PM 8/3/2003 -0500, Picdude wrote: >Righto! So the question morphs to .... which brands of soldering irons/tips >have a "quality" level of plating on them? The metcal and weller are great. I replaced weller tips very infrequently. Weller stations (the magnetic kind) will trigger any scope within a light-year, when they trip. The metcal dosen't. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body