[sdiy] Weller WTCPT Question

[Bob Devries]

Well, there's a couple of things you can check for:
1. continuity between the wires going into the pencil (white and black IIRC)
2. check that the connections inside the pencil are good. I believe they 
used wire nuts to make the connections.

In my experience, the Weller pencils suffered from badly pitted contacts 
inside the pencil (there's a switch there, controlled by the magnetic 
operation of the tip. Sometimes lightly tapping the pencil barrel on the 
table-top will break through the pitting of the contacts, causing it to work 
once more. If this happens, you'll need to burnish the contacts.

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From: "xamboldt" <xamboldt at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:40 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Weller WTCPT Question


> Hey everyone,
>
> I bought a Weller WTCPT from ebay a week or so ago, and it stopped 
> working tonight. The base station switch still lights up, and the  fuse is 
> still fine. It's just the iron doesn't get hot anymore.  Before it stopped 
> working, I could hear and feel it "kicking on" from  time to time, and I 
> assumed this was the temperature compensation. It  doesn't do that now. 
> Any ideas what's wrong with it? Do I need a new  pencil? (I sure hope not)
>
> Thanks for any advice you can give,
> Chris
>
>
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