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From: Joel Koltner on 27 May 2010 21:39 "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:868f62FiaqU1(a)mid.individual.net... > The 150W iron I have is from Ersa, it wasn't very expensive, under $50 > AFAIR. What I found to be quite good as well is the Weller 100/140W solder > gun. Those are really cheap. I often ran into "not enough solder oomph" > situations at clients and then we did a hardware store detour at lunchtime > and bought one. Around $20, usually. Was it this one? --> http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WEL8200PK-120-Volt-Universal-Soldering/dp/B00002N7S0 I had one of those -- probably still do, somewhere -- that rapidly developed a switch problem wherein you had to squeeze REALLY hard to get to 140W. I don't recall if I took it apart to try to fix it, but it sure was annoying.
From: Joerg on 27 May 2010 21:48 Joel Koltner wrote: > "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:868f62FiaqU1(a)mid.individual.net... >> The 150W iron I have is from Ersa, it wasn't very expensive, under $50 >> AFAIR. What I found to be quite good as well is the Weller 100/140W >> solder gun. Those are really cheap. I often ran into "not enough >> solder oomph" situations at clients and then we did a hardware store >> detour at lunchtime and bought one. Around $20, usually. > > Was it this one? --> > http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WEL8200PK-120-Volt-Universal-Soldering/dp/B00002N7S0 > Yes, although we did pay less at the local stores. > > I had one of those -- probably still do, somewhere -- that rapidly > developed a switch problem wherein you had to squeeze REALLY hard to get > to 140W. I don't recall if I took it apart to try to fix it, but it > sure was annoying. > I've never seen one fail. And after I talked clients into buying one I sometimes found that their mechanical guys really loved this thing and soldered lots of brass and other stuff with it. Especially after they found out that engineering had this big 1lbs coil of solder. So they are used a lot. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 28 May 2010 01:32 Joel Koltner wrote: > > "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:868f62FiaqU1(a)mid.individual.net... > > The 150W iron I have is from Ersa, it wasn't very expensive, under $50 > > AFAIR. What I found to be quite good as well is the Weller 100/140W solder > > gun. Those are really cheap. I often ran into "not enough solder oomph" > > situations at clients and then we did a hardware store detour at lunchtime > > and bought one. Around $20, usually. > > Was it this one? --> > http://www.amazon.com/Weller-WEL8200PK-120-Volt-Universal-Soldering/dp/B00002N7S0 > > I had one of those -- probably still do, somewhere -- that rapidly developed a > switch problem wherein you had to squeeze REALLY hard to get to 140W. I don't > recall if I took it apart to try to fix it, but it sure was annoying. I've seen about a half dozen bad switches in the Weller 8200 gun since the mid '60s. I bought my first one in 1966. I splurged and bought the complete kit & carry case for $9 from Allied Radio by mail. I was 13, and mowed lawns that summer to raise the money for my first good tools. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: JosephKK on 4 Jun 2010 16:51
On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:03:28 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >"Tim Wescott" <tim(a)seemywebsite.now> wrote in message >news:6KKdneCFgYK3QGPWnZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d(a)web-ster.com... >> The only two strikes that I see against it is that (a) it can be hard to >> solder correctly, and (b) in light of the performance of a >> constant-impedance connector, the term "UHF" is laughable, however much the >> connector may have outperformed whatever it replaced. >> >> (b) is just a marketing problem -- the connector works fine at HF. > >Yes, although I believe there are some PL-259s where they mess around with the >insulator's dielectric constant to get it much closer to 50ohms than the usual >ones provide. > >> (a) is just a training problem -- given an iron with enough thermal mass >> those things solder up just fine. > >Agreed, although in this day and age I kinda think crimping is the better way >to go anyway: Easier and faster to do correctly than soldering. Maybe, i have met people that could not learn to crimp correctly. > >But everyone certainly *should* solder a few just to get an idea of what the >original ones were like... :-) > >---Joel |