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Originally Posted by ex 2 Base
Are those ceramic beads the same as... fish spine beads?
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No, they're larger, cylindrical, straight-ended and quite different. As it happens, QQV06/40 has kindly sent me a link to an Australian supplier who still stocks all the spare parts for these irons, including ceramic beads, carbons, bits, springs etc. I've ordered some parts and am waiting for a quote for postage.
I love the term 'fish spine beads' though, which describes them perfectly. I have quite a lot of them in different shapes colours and sizes, recovered from scrapped equipment in the hope they'd come in useful someday. Sure enough, last week I had to use a few of them to replace some smashed ones in another old soldering iron. I think they may have come out of a duff Henley Solon.