[TowerTalk] RE: Crappy PL259's

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

Nobody seems to mention filing/scoring the area you're soldering. I
wondered what the file on my Leatherman tool was for but it works great
for this.

As I recall, you don't want to file the silver plated connectors, only the
cheaper ones.

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Eddy Avila wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> When I was a young ham in the 60's I never ever had any problems assembling
> PL259 connectors, particularly when it came to soldering them to the coax.
> I'm sure I never used anything hotter than a 100-watt gun!! I'd simply heat
> up the connector then apply some solder and voila! It was that easy.....
>
> But now, no matter what I buy, cheap or expensive silver-tinted PL259 and
> using a 250watt gun I'm finding it very difficult to get solder to "stick"
> to these crap connectors....getting really frustrated trying to get solder
> to adhere to PL259's now!!!
>
> Can someone recommend (without hesitation) a source of good-quality
> connectors that can take solder like they used to?
>
> thanks much!


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