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motm@yahoogroups.com, "Adam Schabtach" <adam@...> wrote:
>Thanks very much to all for respons and advice.
I've Weller WHS 40W iron and it does its work realy good, so I
suppose it's my soldering technique. I'll try a bit wider tip for
this "obdurate" legs..
Martin
> 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > marcin_grzelak wrote:
> >
> > >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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