[Coco] Soldering Iron

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 23 February 2007, Mark Marlette wrote:
>Gene,
>
>Your dating yourself again.... In '61 I wasn't even born yet. :)
>
>Mark

By '61, I'd already put my fingerprints on the pcb's that were in the 
cameras that were on the Treiste when it went down into the mohole, I 
helped assemble those two as a brash young bench tech working for 
Oceanographic Engineering in San Deigo.

Yeah, I guess that dates me, I was born in '34.

BTW, I'm glad the surgery worked and that you are feeling good again.

>At 2/22/2007 04:37 PM, you wrote:
>>On Thursday 22 February 2007, Torsten Dittel wrote:
>> >> If you see a weller, please move to the
>> >> other side of the street, cooper tools bought them 20 years ago and
>> >> they've been crap ever since.  OTOH, I have a weller WTCP-1 thats
>> >> over 40 years old & still works fine.  Looks pretty rough though,
>> >> its had a LOT of use.
>> >
>> >I have a Weller Magnastat station from '77. Still my first one (gosh,
>> > I started soldering with 8) and works perfectly for me. I use the
>> > very hot points (7?), you just have to be fast enough.... Reads
>> > "Cooper Group Germany". When did they buy it?

I think sometime in the early 70's, but I'm nowhere near a bible to swear 
on either.

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