[SOC] Looking for Heavy Duty Soldering Iron

[David Ring]

Hi Tom,

You need a massive tip to hold the heat and a good heat supply.
Stained glass supply stores and hardware stores often have irons you
can heat in the gas burner on the stove top.

Also Cooper Tools Weller Division makes the SP175 which is called the
Marksman(r) Iron (175 Watt)

Also they make soldering guns D650 is the one you want - it is 300
watts on high - and 200 watts on low.

I used to use a big black iron - it must have been just 175 wats or so
but it was good.  I bought a 140 watt soldering gun - it was useless.

The biggest gun is the way to go.

Someone mentioned a GT-1 model but I don't see it listed - which model
is the closest current model?

73

DR

David N1EA


On 10/8/07, Tom McCulloch <thom2 at att.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  For a while now I've been looking for a heavy duty soldering iron mostly to
> use in soldering coax to PL-259's and the like. The biggest thing I have is
> a 100 watt RS/Weller solder gun but even with that the connector acts as a
> heat sink and I have a lot of trouble making the connection.
>
>  When I was a little ham my dad had this huge soldering iron which probably
> could have been used to connect steel girders together and that was great
> for this type of thing.  I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a
> heavy duty iron?
>
> In desperation I was looking through the crafts section on e-Bay and I have
> come across soldering irons used for connecting pieces of stained glass.
> They seem to be rated at 100 watts (same as my RS gun) but have a big 3/8
> inch tip.  There are several out there, this is one that seem to be
> representative:
>
>  http://www.yglass.com/1078.html
>
> On e-bay they seem to go for about $30 after shipping, or so, although it is
> higher at this site.
>
> My question to the group is do you think this would do the job?
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions you might offer on this.
>
> Tom
> WB2QDG
>
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