I have 3 of these. Other than tips, none have let me down.
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Butane soldering iron Help
- Thread starter Low_Boy
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I bought one of these a long time ago. It scrapped out on me, but I sure liked it at the time. Before that, I had one of those microflame torches that took the little whippet styleTen years and still going strong.
I had one of those. Man, that was years ago. It went thru tips really fast. Sure worked great.Ten years and still going strong.
It's still going. It's my garage soldering pen and I have another in the house. I had bought an expensive Weller butane soldering pen and it crapped in only a few jobs. This little Radio Shack brand was cheap and very reliable.
Do you remember the micro torches? They took twin cylinders of butane and compressed nitronox or whatever. You could weld, braze and solder with them. I had mine since the 70's. I gave it to my bro in law couple years ago. I still had a few spare cylinders with it.
My dad got it for me. I thought that was the neatest thing. Gas didn't last long, though. You could actually do some precision stuff. I see them on eBay all the time. Fun stuff!
My dad got it for me. I thought that was the neatest thing. Gas didn't last long, though. You could actually do some precision stuff. I see them on eBay all the time. Fun stuff!
maybe a bit off topic since this is not a butane soldering iron, but if anyone wants a great tool to use for soldering PL-259 connectors, get one of these:
grind a small curve into the tip so it will sit nicely on the shield of a PL-259 and you'll be able to solder in all four holes without overheating the dielectric of the coax because the heat transfers super fast.
LC
grind a small curve into the tip so it will sit nicely on the shield of a PL-259 and you'll be able to solder in all four holes without overheating the dielectric of the coax because the heat transfers super fast.
LC
Those are great for things like connectors. I bought one several years ago at the hardware store. It was advertised as being for doing stained-glass work. It has enough thermal mass to work quite well on coax connectors.
Well.....
$27 for that 80 watt iron is just too good to pass up. I'm going to do as Loosecannon mentioned and hollow out the tip. I seen replacement tips are around $14. That will replace the modded tip.
Right after I ordered it, I ran across another identical Weller iron, but it has an LED light in it. I'm like... Should've ordered that one. The light would be handy. Only a few bucks more.
Appreciate that link.
$27 for that 80 watt iron is just too good to pass up. I'm going to do as Loosecannon mentioned and hollow out the tip. I seen replacement tips are around $14. That will replace the modded tip.
Right after I ordered it, I ran across another identical Weller iron, but it has an LED light in it. I'm like... Should've ordered that one. The light would be handy. Only a few bucks more.
Appreciate that link.
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Got my new iron out and made up aome jumpers and battery terminals. Worked better than I expected. Definitely a nice iron and a good buy for the price. Half mooned the tip. Makes short work of UHF connectors. It's been a long time since I've soldered them. I usually just crimp them.