MOTM

--- In 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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