[Elecraft] Tinning toroids with a solder pot

[Tom Hammond]

Edward:

It's really not worth the investment in a solder pot for the number of 
leads you'll have to tiun, even if you built every thing Elecraft offers!!!

As David suggests, just getting a nice big iron will be more than 
sufficient. Find an old American Beauty 100W soldering iron (they're 
brutes) and use it. You need the heat, and maybe a fairly wide tip, but you 
don't need a solder pot.

73,

Tom  N0SS

At 01:37 PM 8/26/03, David Pratt wrote:
>In a recent message, Edward Kenworthy <edward@kenworthy.info> said....
>>I've been thinking of buying a solder pot to tin the leads on all the
>>toroids I'll have to make (K2, AATU, SSB, 160m etc etc).
>
>It would be more economical to buy a cheap iron with a bigger bit, 
>Edward.  You could use it for tinning the toroids and I am sure it would 
>come in for other jobs in the future that require a larger bit.
>
>73 de David G4DMP