[TowerTalk] tower talk---soldering pl259 etc

[Terry Dunlap]

At 06:46 PM 3/26/97 -0500, FXBEAMMEUP@aol.com wrote:
>Hi everyone--I use a hand held torch with small seperate oxygen and propane
>bottles (radio shack has em)--the tiny flame is really hot and you can solder
>the braid through the holes so fast the center wire insulation hardly even
>gets warm!!
>73  Scott  K3FXB

Scott, that sounds interesting, what's your procedure?  Do you heat the
connector
at all before focusing on the braid?  Do you remove the flame when you put on
the solder?  Do you use normal solder, eutectic or otherwise??

73 de Terry Kk6T



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