[TowerTalk] Cordless solder irons

[Jeff AC0C]

Harbor freight has a very handy butane unit.  It's got a soldering tip and 
(importantly) a built-in igniter.

http://www.harborfreight.com/butane-pencil-torch-41169.html

73/jeff/ac0c
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-----Original Message----- 
From: AB2E Darrell
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:14 AM
To: Jim Thomson ; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cordless solder irons

I had a hand-held butane soldering iron that worked well out of the house.
A quick search on eBay shows both butane and also some battery powered 
soldering irons.
73 Darrell AB2E


> From: jim.thom at telus.net
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:43:55 -0800
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Cordless solder irons
>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:10:23 -0800
> From: "Don " <w7wll at arrl.net>
> To: "Towertalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax connectors
>
> Which brings a question to mind. Why is there not available for sale a
> decent battery powered soldering iron. Sure would be nice when in the air
> not to be tied to an AC power cord. I did a search (probably not very 
> deep)
> and found some battery powered irons but nothing that would deal with a 
> few
> UHF connectors out and away from the 'house'. A friend from Australia who
> was in the 2-way radio business had a couple he brought when he immigrated
> from Oz but I've been unable to find that they are made anymore.
>
> Anyone have information on such a tool for use whilst up in the air??
>
> Don W7WLL
>
> ##  from 1979-1989...in the telco I worked in 400 miles north of here, we 
> had
> a cordless, rechargeable soldering iron.  Think it was a weller...was 
> orange in colour.
> Worked superb.... but never tried it outside.. only inside.  They were 
> real small, light weight,
> fit in your pocket. A lot smaller than a normal pencil iron.    I believe 
> they would work fine
> outside.  A comment here. Silver plated PL-259s  are a LOT easier to 
> solder vs
> the nickel plated types.   I gave up on amphenol nickel plated /teflon 
> PL-259s.
>
> ##  I picked up 2  dozen van gordon silver /teflon  PL-259 years ago. 
> They solder
> real easy.
>
> ##  Id check out cordless types 1st.   You can probably get em with spare, 
> quick swap out
> lithium batteries no doubt.   The propane /butane types would also work, 
> but are more cumbersome
> heavy etc... esp up a tower.   In good wx... Id run an extension cord up 
> the tower..and use my
> american beauty 100 w iron, with the .375 inch chisel tip.   We used 
> dozens of those irons in the telco,
> back when a lot of wiring was still being soldered.   I have a few of 
> them.   You can also get the bigger
> ones, like 150w and up to 600 watt.   The 100 w version... used to solder 
> a silver plated coax connector,
> is super fast.   The bigger ones like the 500-600w are used for 
> plumbing..where a blow torch cant be used.
> The bigger ones work great for stuff like tubing type tank coils, large 
> wide cu strap, etc.
>
> Jim   VE7RF
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