Talk:Scope soldering iron

COI tag (September 2022)

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

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)

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)

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)