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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by yo_tyler[/i] [br]i have no idea about how a real solderpot works, but i want one. the problem is there price, so i am going to build one. here is my idea. can you tell me if this will work. thx. -take a 3" round clay plant pot and cut it in half -drill lots of 1mm holes all over the pot in a spiral parern into the bottom half -now take the heater wire out of a toaster and weave it in and out of the holes, so it has a longer run between holes on the inside -put a metal cup into the pot. the cup is the kind that sits in a stove-top egg poaching pan. -take the top half and use it as a base for the element filled half. -house it all in a much bigger pot to protect the exposed element wire. will this reach the right temp, before i burn down my workbench? "I reject to reality and substitute my own" -Adam Savage Edited by - yo_tyler on Mar 11 2005 12:06:48 AM [/quote]    Insert an Image File (GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, ZIP, PNG) Check here to include your profile signature.