[Milsurplus] Re: [Boatanchors] Large Soldering Irons

[J. Forster]

American Beauty and Hexacon comes to mind. Try Google and/or eBay.

-John


WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> Groups,
>
> I have a large (about 3/4" dia. tip) 120 watt soldering iron made by Stanley.
>  I found it unused in the original box some years ago at a flea market.  I
> originally got it to use on the occasional antenna or other heavy project but
> recently have used it to open up military grade canned capacitors for
> rebuilding.  I'd like to make some custom fit flat tips to speed up this process but the
> pyramid tip on this one isn't removable (it may have been before I started
> using it) and the only way I can see to attach them to the iron would be to cut
> the existing tip off flat, which I'm not going to do to my only large iron.
>
> I took a look at the Stanley Tools site but several search attempts didn't
> turn up anything related to solder.  So I assume they no longer make soldering
> irons.  Does anyone know of anyone who still makes irons that are not only
> rated above say 100 watts but that have tips with a diameter of 1/2"" or larger?
>
> 73
> Robert Downs - Houston
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