[TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax connectors

[Dick Green WC1M]

Which model Master Appliance iron/torch are you using? Is it the UT-300Si?

FWIW, it looks like the Solder Pro and Master Appliance tools are made in
the same factory...

73, Dick WC1M

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Labinsky Jr. [mailto:K2STN at frontier.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:04 AM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax connectors
> 
> Now if you want to talk butane soldering irons, let's take a look at those
from
> Master Appliance.
> 
> I have a Solder Pro 120, have used it for years.  Used it to solder 58U
cable to
> 3/4" Motorola (NMO) mounts.  Nice iron... but!  In the winter it juuuuust
> about almost had enough heat to do the shield connection using the biggest
> flat blade tip available.  As long as it wasn't too windy.
> 
> The big Master guy on the other hand... he's like an old fashioned 100
watt
> plug-in soldering iron, the kind with a two prong plug, cotton covered
cord
> and a half inch diameter copper tip.  You touch it to the work, the solder
> flows!  Don't care how cold it is outside.   Well, actually I do, it gets
> awfully uncomfortable up in the crosswind on top of a school bus roof in
the
> winter.  But hey, that's where the antenna is, it's been torn out of the
roof
> and the mount's shot... well, it's a living.
> 
> The only fly in this ointment?  Cost!  The Master goes for about 4 times
the
> 120's price.  But when it's needed, it's well worth it!
> 
> Oh, BTW, watch the kind of fuel you buy.  Have used some supposedly good
> stuff which was contaminated with... well, I forget what the Solder Pro
folks
> said that it was  They even commented that for a short time the
> contaminated fuel was even ruining brand new irons as they were being
> tested at the factory, or so I was told when I tried to send mine back for
> warranty service many years ago.  They, instead, sent me a new valve and
> orifice assembly... the bad ones were literally gummed up with a jelly
like
> polymer goo.  The only stuff I was told to use was the Master Appliance
fuel.
> That I buy from Grainger.
> 
> Stan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W3YY
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 10:36 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax connectors
> 
> Weller also makes one like that.  I have one and it works great on top of
the
> tower, though I am trying to move toward other kinds connections up there
> whenever possible.
> 
> 73, Bob - W3YY
>