Kurt,
I won't argue with the details, but at age 79, I've got a LOT of better
ways to spend my limited number of hours left above ground.
73, Jim
On 2/15/2021 11:16 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
A 325W Weller D550 gun, or a 100W iron, and practice. You can remove
the reducers, as well. I just use some old battery terminal pliers for
those, easy to grab the collar, and unscrew. D550, about $5 at a yard
sale, iron, new, about $30 at the time, a small machinists vise swiped
from Dad (about $30 for him) to use as a parts holder, a few bucks for
bore brushes, a few more for braid, a $9 solder sucker from Rat Shack, a
couple bucks for more sucker tips, a few dollars for spare D550 tips
(file, or crush to the right shape), also from Radio Shack, some liquid
rosin, I made that by the quart (necessary for el-cheapo de-soldering
braid), so maybe $5-10 there for a few pounds of rosin from Tri-S, and
some quarts of isopropanol from Thrifty's... That's it for "specialty"
items, then some tweezers, I found those in the trash, and some
stainless cleaning brushes from Harbor Freight, so maybe $5 there.
Canned air, or an air compressor helps, Dad bought a paint sprayer
compressor from Sear's in 1979, so that was laying around. I guess
about $75 across four decades, a hundred bucks maybe, at the outside.
But, heat, pull out in pieces (two, if lucky, the braid, and dielectric,
then the center conductor, then clean), shake, blow, brush, wick, wash,
no different that de-soldering a component, just a little more heat, and
practice. You should have it figured out in three, to four connectors.
Kurt
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