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Re: [TowerTalk] Soldering Iron

To: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Soldering Iron
From: Charlie Gallo <Charlie@TheGallos.com>
Reply-to: Charlie Gallo <Charlie@TheGallos.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:34:22 -0500
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On 2/2/2009 Rob Atkinson wrote:

> A gun no matter how high watt isn't any good because the tip doesn't
> have the metal mass needed for soldering a uhf male outside.   You'll
> never find the big irons at Lowe's or Home Depot.  Berland's House of
> Tools has the high watt irons you need, made by Wahl with large
> massive tips.  

Another wonderful tool that I USED to have access to that makes soldering UHF 
or other BIG connectors simple - see if you can get yourself a nice resistance 
soldering rig (or one can be made from a filament transformer) - take the 
carbon electrode tweezers, clamp around the body, hit the foot peddle, and the 
connector is up to temp in maybe 2-5 seconds

--  
73 de KG2V

For the Children - RKBA!

Anybody who cannot comprehend mathematics is not fully human. 
 At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wash, cook food, and not 
make messes on the couch.
 --R.A.H.

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