[Elecraft] I keep burning up tips. What's wrong?

[George, W5YR]

I was taught by my Elmer W5QN in 1945 when  I worked in his radio shop. For
some time after I started work, he would inspect every repair job to check
the soldering. If he saw something he didn't like it was "do it over
again!"

Great guy! He started in 1914, worked nothing by CW his entire life and was
still active when he died at 101.

73/72, George    
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe   
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!


kc4kgu@ENTERZONE.NET wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, George, W5YR wrote:
> 
> > both the solder and the joint with the tip, withdrawing the solder and the
> > tip when enough had flowed into the joint and was fully liquid and "shiny."
> >
> > Curious . . .
> >
> > 73/72, George
> 
> Cute pun on your signature there "Currious George."  I was taught, my the
> Marine Corps of all people, to shoot for SSCCC or "Smooth, Shiny, Clean
> Concave and Covering."  Anything else is just not good enough.