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@Søren Yeah, this aint denmark here. in 'murica most of the parents don't care to teach their children as much as you have. And yeah It's stupid how many lawsuits happen over stupid things. My children will know and understand how to use a soldering iron at a young age. As I have said though...

@Søren I understand what you're saying but the idea is to get soldering irons into kids hands at younger ages. Regardless of whether or not we should "bubble wrap them" a lot of parents won't let their kids do this sort of activity with the current risk and if a child got hurt there would...

Just realized your handle may end up melting as that "heatsink" wont be there anymore allowing more heat to reach the handle. Have fun burning yourself, it will happen.

A heatsink and a thermal mass. I've always felt that it should be insulated anyway but this would require expensive materials to accomplish. basically you want to change the fact that it is a 10" stick that has 6 inches of scorching hot metal ready to start fires or cauterize pubescent acne. my...

the setup

I use a computer power supply. I got a piece of phenol board from work and put brass screws with wingnuts through and the power wires connected on the backside. I have a voltmeter I bought for 2$ on ebay right from china mounted in an electrical junction box. I also have the voltages wired to...

After checking out georges ebay listings he seems to have great prices as well.

I would like to second the vote for tayda, I have bought over 300$ worth of product from them over 3 years. 300$ may not sound like much over that timespan but it's because they are so cheap.used to ship from thailand but the more recent orders came from chicago, I seem to remember an email...