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[TowerTalk] RE: Crappy PL259's

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Subject: [TowerTalk] RE: Crappy PL259's
From: w7why@harborside.com (Tom Osborne)
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:12:29 +0100


Eddy Avila wrote:
> 

> But now, no matter what I buy, cheap or expensive silver-tinted >PL259 and 
> using a 250watt gun I'm finding it very difficult to >get solder to "stick" 
> to these crap connectors...

I always take a small file and file around the holes in the
connector before trying to solder them.  Makes it a lot easier.  
73
Tom W7WHY

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