Talk:Scope soldering iron

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COI tag (September 2022)[edit]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Help_desk&diff=prev&oldid=686906195 — Jeff G. ツ 10:30, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The person who made additions and corrections to this article clearly has a family link to one of the inventors. His additions and correction to one egregious error on my part are most welcome and add considerably to the article. I see no self-interest in his contributions. Doug butler (talk) 21:53, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Doug.

Are you able to remove the conflict of interest warning? I can't.

I see you removed the reference to the home Electroplating set and Vibroscope but the Vibroscope picture remains. I'm OK with it both ways. There was also a Screened cable wire ejector. The entry could mention all three in a single sentence. Thanks for posting the article in the first place. Peter Seligman (talk) 23:08, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Scope iron and the Vibroscope have much in common:

Both require low voltage/ high current transformer or battery
Handles are superficially identical
Both very common in workshops and small factories
High quality (ahem) photographs available, both operational and dismantled

I'd never heard of, let alone seen, the plating jig until I started the article (I gather it works off penlight cells). And I can't imagine the screened cable wire ejector. I've many times wasted the wire from coax or screened cable to make a flat braided earth strap, but I guess that's not it. In any case, the article is about the iron, not Scope Laboratories Ltd.

I've never removed a COI notice, but wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Tell me more about your book. BTW, graphite is the solid form of carbon, the hardest and most heat-conductive apart from diamond, which has disadvantages in this application, not the least being that it's an excellent electrical insulator. Doug butler (talk) 05:21, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]