[TowerTalk] RE: Crappy PL259's

[Chris BONDE]

Yes, I have heard that the new environmental friendly solders contain no 
lead.  Thus it might be a much highr melting temperature.

Anyone know anything about that?  (I have overheard someone wanted to make 
sufe that the lead was taken out all the pencils)

Chris opr VE7HCB
At 07:05 AM 2001-10-22 -0700, you wrote:

>I certainly am not having this problem.  I can only think of 2 things 
>that'd be
>wrong.  Either not enough heat or maybe you're using some of that new lead 
>free
>solder. A PL259 can sink quite a bit of heat so use a big iron and also be 
>sure
>to use a good quality solder with lead.  I've never mastered the lead free
>stuff.  I think it takes a special flux.
>
>73
>Good luck
>Jim
>
>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!
> >
> > 73....../ed
> >
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