I have great success soldering PL-259 Connectors...And I Leave them alone
after soldering until completely cool..Tin the braid,use a small pipe
cutter to remove excess braid and don`t stress out...Easy! Have fun
Boyz...K7RDX..
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 12:56 PM Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
wrote:
> Two tricks that help with soldering to conventional PL259 bodies:
>
> 1. File across each of the four solder holes using a 1/8in round file,
> reducing the thickness of metal to leave sharp edges of bare brass. The
> thin metal is much easier to heat up with a soldering iron.
>
> 2. To make even less work for the soldering iron, pre-heat the connector
> body to around 100C/200F usinga hot-air gun. (Take care not to blow hot
> air directly onto the cable jacket; if necessary, loosely wrap the
> exposed jacket with aluminum foil.)
>
> With these methods, even a 40W soldering iron can give good joints every
> time.
>
> 73 from Ian GM3SEK
>
>
> On 09/04/2021 19:15, Jim Brown wrote:
>
> > On 4/9/2021 5:22 AM, Tim Duffy wrote:
> >> I have seen other stations where guys try to solder through the body
> >> holes with terrible results. If you can do it - that is great.
> >
> > I'm a bit of a clutz mechanically. Tim's method looked solid, so I
> > tried it on a few connectors, and only made a mess. I have had great
> > success with conventional through the holes soldering. The secret for
> > me is a big, temperature controlled iron, and a big bench vice to hold
> > the work.
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
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