THIS is a much more serious butane-fueled solder gun, with a chunky
copper tip that stores the heat well. There is a built-in igniter but
the heating element is catalytic so there is no naked flame after the
initial ignition/warmup sequence. The heating element is fully enclosed
within the barrel so it's pretty much windproof, and the tip can also be
removed for direct use as a hot-gas gun.
<http://www.pro-iroda.com/pro180.htm>
It still won't solder a PL259 body outdoors in winter, but the answer to
that one is simple - don't even try. Use either a crimp or a
compression-sleeve type.
73 from Ian GM3SEK
>-----Original Message-----
>From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>Jeff AC0C
>Sent: 20 November 2014 04:47
>To: AB2E Darrell; Jim Thomson; towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cordless solder irons
>
>Harbor freight has a very handy butane unit. It's got a soldering tip
and
>(importantly) a built-in igniter.
>
>http://www.harborfreight.com/butane-pencil-torch-41169.html
>
>73/jeff/ac0c
>www.ac0c.com
>alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: AB2E Darrell
>Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:14 AM
>To: Jim Thomson ; towertalk@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cordless solder irons
>
>I had a hand-held butane soldering iron that worked well out of the
house.
>A quick search on eBay shows both butane and also some battery powered
>soldering irons.
>73 Darrell AB2E
>
>
>> From: jim.thom@telus.net
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:43:55 -0800
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Cordless solder irons
>>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:10:23 -0800
>> From: "Don " <w7wll@arrl.net>
>> To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax
connectors
>>
>> Which brings a question to mind. Why is there not available for sale
a
>> decent battery powered soldering iron. Sure would be nice when in the
air
>> not to be tied to an AC power cord. I did a search (probably not very
>> deep)
>> and found some battery powered irons but nothing that would deal with
a
>> few
>> UHF connectors out and away from the 'house'. A friend from Australia
>who
>> was in the 2-way radio business had a couple he brought when he
>immigrated
>> from Oz but I've been unable to find that they are made anymore.
>>
>> Anyone have information on such a tool for use whilst up in the air??
>>
>> Don W7WLL
>>
>> ## from 1979-1989...in the telco I worked in 400 miles north of
here, we
>> had
>> a cordless, rechargeable soldering iron. Think it was a weller...was
>> orange in colour.
>> Worked superb.... but never tried it outside.. only inside. They
were
>> real small, light weight,
>> fit in your pocket. A lot smaller than a normal pencil iron. I
believe
>> they would work fine
>> outside. A comment here. Silver plated PL-259s are a LOT easier to
>> solder vs
>> the nickel plated types. I gave up on amphenol nickel plated
/teflon
>> PL-259s.
>>
>> ## I picked up 2 dozen van gordon silver /teflon PL-259 years ago.
>> They solder
>> real easy.
>>
>> ## Id check out cordless types 1st. You can probably get em with
spare,
>> quick swap out
>> lithium batteries no doubt. The propane /butane types would also
work,
>> but are more cumbersome
>> heavy etc... esp up a tower. In good wx... Id run an extension cord
up
>> the tower..and use my
>> american beauty 100 w iron, with the .375 inch chisel tip. We used
>> dozens of those irons in the telco,
>> back when a lot of wiring was still being soldered. I have a few of
>> them. You can also get the bigger
>> ones, like 150w and up to 600 watt. The 100 w version... used to
solder
>> a silver plated coax connector,
>> is super fast. The bigger ones like the 500-600w are used for
>> plumbing..where a blow torch cant be used.
>> The bigger ones work great for stuff like tubing type tank coils,
large
>> wide cu strap, etc.
>>
>> Jim VE7RF
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