Don’t pull the plug yet—there’s still a place at the rework bench for the soldering iron.
So is there still a place at the rework bench for soldering irons? Charles F. Loutrel, sales manager for M.M. Newman Corp. (Marblehead, MA), thinks so. "There will always be a need for a good soldering iron and for people who know how to use one," he asserts. "It’s like when radial tires came out. People didn’t change tires as often, but they still changed tires."