[Elecraft] stripping insulation from enamel wires

[Fred Jensen]

Ummm ... solder pot not required.  All of the Elecraft kits I've built, 
including my K2, used heat-strippable wire for the toroids.  Small blob 
of solder on the iron, stick end of wire into it, wait a few seconds, 
when insulation bubbles and smokes, insert wire into blob slowly as far 
as you need to.  End of wire is not only stripped, it's now tinned too.

I used a separate larger iron I had that happened to have a flat-ish end 
which held a good solder blob but occasionally did it with my Weller 
Solder Station I was using for the actual soldering.  I wiped it off 
every now and then when the insulation and rosin had accumulated.  I did 
not find it frustrating at all.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 6/12/2020 2:01 PM, William Hammond via Elecraft wrote:
> I have suffered through the painful process of removing the enamel on the wire on just about all of the Elecraft kits..K2, K1, KX1, tuner’s etc.. I think I have made them all...just reading the comments here I was wondering why I never bought a solder pot as recommended...I checked out eBay and found several at around $30 USD,,why didn’t I do that 10 -15 elecraftyears ago and save all that frustration??  Chinese made, some 120 volt..perhaps will work for several kits...If I had it to do again..
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> 73, Bill-AK5X
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