[Elecraft] Tinning toroids with a solder pot

Tue Aug 26 22:21:01 2003

Hi gang,

  I bought a small solder pot when I was winding my torroids.  Its handy to
have around and kinda fun.  It cost about $32.00 and does the trick - just
an aside, from a guy who learned the hard way - DON'T use rosin core solder
in the pot. pheww!

Tom
WB2QDG

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-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Kenworthy <[email protected]>
To: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:31 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Tinning toroids with a solder pot

>
>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). I'm happy with the
>winding part but can't seem to get the tinning right using the blob of
>solder method (admittedly using a fine solder tip). I considered the toroid
>guy but decided against his offerings - I'll build the whole kit myself
>dammit ;-) So would a solder pot help - ie make it as easy as possible to
>tin the toroid leads - or am I kidding myself ?
>
>Edward
>
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