[Milsurplus] Large Soldering Irons

[D C Macdonald]

I have a Weller soldering iron with element
diameter of 5/8" and chisel tip about 3/8".
I think it is 120 Watt or so.  I bought it for
working on heavy, large items such as the
PL-259 connectors.

Check http://www.coopertools.com and
follow the instructions to get to Weller
products.

73  ---  Mac, K2GKK?5
Oklahoma City, OK



----Original Message Follows----
From: WA5CAB at cs.com
To: boatanchors at theporch.com, 
boatanchors at mailman.qth.net,milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] Large Soldering Irons
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:42:25 EST

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
<http://www.wa5cab.com> (Web Store)
<wa5cab at cs.com> (Primary email)
<wa5cab at houston.rr.com> (Backup email)
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