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Subject: FW: [motm] Remedial soldering 101

From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
Date: 2002-12-09

Remedial soldering 101

Issomething acting as a heat sink in the area? Seemsunlikely, but...

 

Either that orthe thermostat is going in your iron. My Weller is 16 years old and hasn'tfailed but I hear it happens.

 

 

Ken Tkacs

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brousseau, Paul E (Paul)[mailto:noise@...]
 

...It feels like Icouldn't get the braided wire hot enough to meld with the solder.  At onepoint, though, one of the braids become brittle and snapped as I flexedit.  Surely this isn't very good.  I had my (cheap Radio Shack)soldering iron set to "high", which has consistantly worked in thepast...