[TowerTalk] Butane soldering iron recommendations?

[Chuck Dietz]

Master Appliance has amazing heat tools that start with a flame and then
you extinguish it and it uses a catalyst to reach higher temperatures than
a regular butane torch. I have used one high on a tower in the wind. You
will never go back to a regular torch.

Chuck W5PR

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 3:59 PM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> Long time since I've posted, but read most of your emails at least weekly,
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> Trying to solder up some wires out in the field here before contest season
> and even during nice warm T-shirt weather, with any kind of a breeze my
> cheapie $40 butane soldering iron sometimes won't get hot enough to patch
> (solder) a stranded #12AWG wire back together.  What do I need?
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> I've soldered with a small el-cheapo butane (raw) torch (not ideal)
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> I've soldered with a small butane powered soldering iron.works "OK" if it's
> warm outside (5 months of the year) and there is no breeze. (almost never
> here on the Ridge)
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> What are you guys using for your field repairs?  Something by Weller? How
> many Watt equivalent?
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> I don't want a $25 Amazon cheapie.  Already been down that road.  But also
> probably don't need a $500 unit for those few times a year I am too far
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> the house not to use a variety of my electric irons.
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> Thanks and keep on towertalkin'
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> Mike VE9Antenna Antenna
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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