[Elecraft] Re: was airports and planes -- soldeting stations

[W5RCM - Ron]

I have one of these too...works as good as the $$$ Weller I bought with 
my boss's money!  :)  The free DMM is ok too.
--
72, Ron - W5RCM
w5rcm at volente dot us
Austin TX


Eric Ward wrote:
> I used the soldering station from Circuit Specialists, recommended in 
> the "Summary of available soldering stations" article by Tom, N0SS.  It 
> appears on the page that you get to by clicking the "How to build and 
> test your kit" link, which is on the "Builder resources" page, a link 
> for which is on the Elecraft website front page--2 levels down makes it 
> a little harder to find ; )  The station was $39.95 as reported--came 
> with a tip about 1.5 mm dia, which worked fine--they also sell a few mm 
> chisel tip, which is good for the antenna jack.  I had previously built 
> a Rock Mite with an unregulated Shack iron.  It worked, but was much 
> more stressful--pretty easy to melt the PC board.  I figured no big deal 
> for a $25 bag of parts.  But a $40 investment to avoid reducing a nice 
> $279 bag of parts to junk seemed like cheap insurance.  They also throw 
> in a free DMM on $50+ orders.  And they have a BNC-to-dual binding post 
> adapter for a few bucks.  No interest in Circuit Specialists, except as 
> a 1 time customer.
> 73,
> Eric
> N0HHS
> KX1 #760  
> 
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