Sounds like one heck of a bad day! Laura, take the soldering iron back and get another one that one must be defective...they should last forever...and if they don't return them for a replacement. Hope this helps, Andy



It seems like this should be so easy, but it hasn't proven to be so for me.

I tried a drill, and the plastic cracked. Then I tried a soldering iron, and it only gave me maybe 50 holes and died, never to work again - was only able to get one enclosure mostly finished. Seems that would get kind of expensive to replace soldering irons so often.

Then I purchased a butane pencil torch...filled it with butane and it doesn't light. I then turned it on and held a flame to it and it blew the flame, but didn't ignite. Sigh..there just has to be a better way. Any suggestions?
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