Yeah, ditto what Geoff said about irons, and if you want to get a decent
iron for not much money, there's a little Weller station that's about
$40-50. I forget its model number but it has a red-orange base. You'll need
to buy a small tip for it also; the one that comes with it is too big for
anything other than soldering jack lugs. I used one of those for assembling
~25 MOTM modules and never had a problem with soldering Spectrol pot leads.
Eventually I moved up to a more elaborate (expensive) Weller station, but I
passed the first one on to a friend who is still using it to assemble
modules.
--Adam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff [mailto:overand@...]
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:17 PM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Soldering advice
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> I'm curious, what type of iron are you using? The advice the
> others gave is great, but in my experience, I've noticed that
> if your iron is too cold (or too low powered) some components
> can act like big ol'
> heatsinks, cooling everything down and making the solder flow
> poorly, if at all. This is why I love my Weller WTCPT
> (thanks for the reccomendation on the site, Paul!) 42 watts,
> but it doesn't bake everything it touches, as it's
> temperature controlled. What a friggin'
> difference between that and a radio shack ~13 watt pencil
> iron, which incidentally i NEVER touched an MOTM kit with =]
>
> -Geoff
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> marcin_grzelak wrote:
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> >Hi,
> >During my solderings works on MOTM's kits I still hit the same time-
> >consuming difficulty - soldering Spestrol pots legs.
> >Time and again there's one or two legs of there realy "resist" to my
> >soldering-iron.The solder "dont't want" to flow through...
> >I try to bend leg a little bit in all directions, give bit more
> >temperatur - it's realy ardnous till I have a bit solder at another
> >side
> >
> >Any tricks...???
> >
> >Martin
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