[TowerTalk] Butane soldering iron recommendations?

[John Sloop]

I use wire compression sleeves-no soldering.
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> On Sep 20, 2023, at 6:35 PM, Lee Hiers <lee.hiers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I use a Master Appliance Ultratorch...I like it.
> 
> Lee, AA4GA
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 5:40 PM Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Long time since I've posted, but read most of your emails at least
>> weekly,
>>> if not daily.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I've soldered with a small el-cheapo butane (raw) torch (not ideal)
>>> 
>>> 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)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What are you guys using for your field repairs?  Something by Weller? How
>>> many Watt equivalent?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> from
>>> the house not to use a variety of my electric irons.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks and keep on towertalkin'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mike VE9Antenna Antenna
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Keswick Ridge, NB
>>> 
>>> 
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