[sdiy] Weller WTCPT Question

[James Patchell]

The newer weller irons are of somewhat lesser quality than the older 
one...I have found that the number one failure in mine has been the heating 
unit...I think you can get the heating unit from digikey...take the pencil 
apart...the heating unit is fairly obvious...check to see if it is 
open...you can also check the thermal switch as well at that time.  I have 
also had the wires in the cable open up.

At 10:09 PM 2/12/2006 -0600, Paul Schreiber wrote:
>New tip, $7 at www.alliedelec.com
>
>Paul S.
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "xamboldt" <xamboldt at earthlink.net>
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>Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 9:40 PM
>Subject: [sdiy] Weller WTCPT Question
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>>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

         -Jim
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