[Boatanchors] soldering/desoldering on boatanchors

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Gene...

If you can, buy a 100-150W gun or if you can find one, a plain ole
100-150w soldering iron.

I have an old 150W iron, has about 1/2 inch diameter tip of solid
copper, can heat up chassis to flow solder very fast.   Also use
"big Berta" a 250W iron with a very large tip that was used to repair
radiators.  Works wonders on old steel chassis radios.

Now some solder stations work well, our Weller TCP station can be
loaded with a large tip, is only good for a short time.  Can do PL259
connetors, but that is about it.

Rod
K0EQH
REVCOM





 Ladies and Gents:
>
> Recently began trying to work on some radios and other equip.  I came
> across an alumn can-type lytic capacitor that was (I believe) bad in a
> power supply.  I began to try to desolder it, but found my 40W Ratshack
> iron was barely melting the solder, even after holding it for many many
> minutes.
>
> I decided I needed more power.  I went to ratshack and while looking
> for a 100W iron (gun) I stumbled across a temperature controllable with
> a digital readout to set and also read the actual tip temp. No where on
> the box or instructions could I find the wattage rating, but it did say
> the temp was controllable from 350F to 840F. I bought the thing, but
> can anyone tell me what are the watts associated with this temp range?
>
> I opted to buy this instead of their 100W gun, because I am unfamiliar
> with the techniques for using the guns vs the pencil-style. Most
> unfamiliar with how the tip can work, so I went with the pencil-style
> with the temp control.
>
> thanks
> Eugene
>
>
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