[TenTec] Solder and my Omni

[Stuart Rohre]

The solder suckers that work best have a tight fitting teflon tip that 
you can put down over the pad.  Heat the pad first with a clean iron 
tip; just before use I wipe mine on a wet sponge and add a tiny bit of 
solder. 

Immediately apply iron tip to the pad and lead together, watch for the 
liquid state, swap in the tip of the sucker and press the button.  You 
eventually get used to the two handed technique to hold solder iron in 
one hand, solder sucker in other and use your thumb to recock the 
vacuum.  After a solder sucking session, remove the sucker tip and clean 
out the solder fines.  Some come with a stiff wire tool to clean the 
small bore of the nozzle, and that helps.  After long use, one of mine 
needs you to square up the tip nozzle with an box cutter blade, or to 
replace the nozzle, if the bore gets too large a diameter.

Stuart Rohre
K5KVH