[Elecraft] Re: Drills

[Wallace, Andy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wa2dkg@juno.com [mailto:wa2dkg@juno.com]

> A source for these small drills is a machine tool=20
> supplier...You probable
> NOT be able to buy drills smaller than #60 at your local Sears, Home
> Depot, or hardware store...The tips do carbon up on the=20
> inside with burnt enamel and need to be cleaned out occasionally

At work we have a little jackknife kit of wire probes to
clean out the solder sucker tips. They look like stiff, thin
wires.=20

Hakko has a "cleaning pin" they call out for cleaning the element
and tips. Tequipment may have it somewhere in:

http://www.tequipment.net/HakkoPriceList4.html

The ones I mentioned look like you could homebrew them out of music
wire - go to your local music shop and ask for bits of electric=20
guitar strings.=20

If you keep the sucker clean as you use it, you won't have to clean out
a big mess all at once.=20

For those of you without access tp Chore Boy wire sponges:

http://www.hmcelectronics.com/cgi-bin/scripts/pd/0460-0001/0460-0001/0460=
-0001