can I fry a switch? (update...no fried switch)

[burnt fingers]

So my wife gets me a RS gift card for my birthday cuz I've been bitching about my 15 year old soldering iron which has seen better days.  So i go buy a new 25 watter from rat shack.  I used it for a minuete last week and it seemed fine.  Tonight I was adding a switch to my long overdue for completion bobtavia and it seemed like I was on the lugs of that the switch for an eternity before solder would even come close to melting.  I finally get fed up and wip out my crappy old iron and badda bing badda bank every thing is wired up in two minuetes.  I fire up the amp and I get nothing. a little crackely signal but no real guitar sound.  Is it possible that I fried the switch by having the heat on it for too long with that crappy rat shack iron?  I have another switch which I can try in the morning I guess i really just wanted to vent.

Thanks for listening.


Update:
The switch was not fried I just had my input jack crosswired.  I guess I was so frustrated with the new soldering iron that I wasn't paying attention.
The bobtavia sounds great.  I did some of the mods I've seen posted as well as a few of my own.  I'll post a schem when I get a chance to draw one up.  The solderin iron is still going back to rat shack and I may give them a second chance.  I'll try a different model since this was a gift card I can't just take the cash and go somewher else.

On to the next project.

Scott

[goodrevdoc]

Just use an ohmmeter to check the switch. If it checks out, I'd look elsewhere...
-justin

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

It's easy to fry a switch. One, the plastic melts (or at least softens). Or, the lubricant inside the switch melts and runs onto the contacts.
Yes, you can fry a switch, in my experience.

[Mark Hammer]

It's easy to fry a switch. One, the plastic melts (or at least softens). Or, the lubricant inside the switch melts and runs onto the contacts.
Yes, you can fry a switch, in my experience.

(emphasis added)

[Paul Marossy]

The only time I have "fried" a switch is when I overheated one of those 3PDT switches - the lugs got so hot that it melted the surrounding plastic and it shifted around, resulting in a jacked up switch. 

Anyhow, now I make sure that I don't overheat my switches when I'm soldering. Most of the time, they have been remarkably resiliant when it comes to soldering them up. I have one Carling DPDT switch that I must have used in about 10 different pedals, soldered and desoldered each time - it's still going strong!