[Boatanchors] [External Sender] Re: [ARC5] Walter Ashe Novice Staton

[Bill Henderson]

Among my many soldering devices is a soldering iron powered by a gas
cartridge (butane?).

It works well where soldering is necessary and electricity is not available
(or I forgot to charge the battery one).

I guess it's the modern descendant of those that were directly heated in a
fire.

Just wondering what the typical melting point of the solder used in those
days was...

 - Bill H. / va3hwa



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On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 4:31 PM Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> >
> > Bet you'd have to get that sucker white hot to solder on a PL-259!
> >
>
> You might be surprised.  I never used a gas heated iron, but I have
> some big American Beauties with massive tips, about the size of a golf
> ball if not bigger.  I thought they'd be ideal for a UHF male.  They
> are so hot that barrel liquefied the RG213 dielectric in no time.
> But, when I had to solder a wire splice outside in 30 degree
> temperature and wind, it couldn't get enough heat going to do
> anything.
>
> 73
> Rob
> K5UJ
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