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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• Putting holes in plastic enclosures - LauraV, Tue Mar 21 16:52:25 2006
• RE: Putting holes in plastic enclosures - CBH, Tue Mar 21 16:56:33 2006
• Actually neither , it's - LauraV, Tue Mar 21 17:04:39 2006
• RE: Actually neither , it's - CBH, Tue Mar 21 17:08:48 2006
• RE: Actually neither , it's - rainbowsrus, Tue Mar 21 17:09:27 2006
• It is feet... - LauraV, Tue Mar 21 17:14:38 2006
• Oops - LauraV, Tue Mar 21 17:16:09 2006
• Yeah, I was thinking - rainbowsrus, Wed Mar 22 00:11:39 2006
• RE: Actually neither , it's - Randall_Turner, Tue Mar 21 17:10:19 2006
• RE: Putting holes in plastic enclosures - rainbowsrus, Tue Mar 21 17:06:39 2006
• Thank you everyone. - LauraV, Tue Mar 21 17:18:30 2006
• RE: Putting holes in plastic enclosures - scaleman, Tue Mar 21 17:21:04 2006
• RE: Putting holes in plastic enclosures - ajfreptiles, Tue Mar 21 18:28:09 2006
• You are not kidding - LauraV, Tue Mar 21 18:42:25 2006
• RE: You are not kidding - ajfreptiles, Tue Mar 21 19:02:29 2006
• I usually heat up a metal rod - vcaruso15, Tue Mar 21 20:52:19 2006
• RE: a soldering iron... - cbreps, Wed Mar 22 08:38:38 2006