[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 4, Issue 28

[Tom Hammond]

Jerry:

>There is one thing I would add for stripping the toroids with the Hakko
>808...Holding the toroid in your fingers WILL  burn your finger tips, the
>copper wire conducts the heat almost immediately...Holding the toroid
>with pliers might damage the enamel...Place the toroid on the workbench
>and place a weight on it, covering only half the toroid and leaving the
>wires exposed...The weight keeps the toroid from moving around, leaves
>the other hand free for adding solder, and saves your fingertips...

Might I humbly suggest merely holding the toroid at the OTHER end of the 
wire being tinned...?  E.g. tinning lead #1, hold closer to the Lead #2 
side of the core. The heat dissipates quickly as it goes around a few tunrs 
of the core.

Several folks have also had good luck sticking their toroids on a pencil 
point... or into a long, slightly tapered wooden dowel.

73,

Tom   N0SS