[TowerTalk] Reuse PL-259

[Jim Brown]

Kurt,

I won't argue with the details, but at age 79, I've got a LOT of better 
ways to spend my limited number of hours left above ground.

73, Jim

On 2/15/2021 11:16 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:

> A 325W Weller D550 gun, or a 100W iron, and practice.  You can remove 
> the reducers, as well.  I just use some old battery terminal pliers for 
> those, easy to grab the collar, and unscrew.  D550, about $5 at a yard 
> sale, iron, new, about $30 at the time, a small machinists vise swiped 
> from Dad (about $30 for him) to use as a parts holder, a few bucks for 
> bore brushes, a few more for braid, a $9 solder sucker from Rat Shack, a 
> couple bucks for more sucker tips, a few dollars for spare D550 tips 
> (file, or crush to the right shape), also from Radio Shack, some liquid 
> rosin, I made that by the quart (necessary for el-cheapo de-soldering 
> braid), so maybe $5-10 there for a few pounds of rosin from Tri-S, and 
> some quarts of isopropanol from Thrifty's...  That's it for "specialty" 
> items, then some tweezers, I found those in the trash, and some 
> stainless cleaning brushes from Harbor Freight, so maybe $5 there. 
> Canned air, or an air compressor helps, Dad bought a paint sprayer 
> compressor from Sear's in 1979, so that was laying around.  I guess 
> about $75 across four decades, a hundred bucks maybe, at the outside. 
> But, heat, pull out in pieces (two, if lucky, the braid, and dielectric, 
> then the center conductor, then clean), shake, blow, brush, wick, wash, 
> no different that de-soldering a component, just a little more heat, and 
> practice.  You should have it figured out in three, to four connectors.
> 
> Kurt
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