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6th Apr 2019, 10:07 am | #21 |
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Re: How to solder
5/32 Whit. Noted, thanks Chris! Perhaps it's time for a pre-emptive strike with tiny smear of copper grease before it becomes a problem. Dave
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6th Apr 2019, 10:52 am | #22 |
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Re: How to solder
I don't think the grubscrew was 5/32 BSW, the Meccano screw was, ISTR, graunched into the stripped threads of its hole. It was occasionally a nuisance in tight corners of a chassis!
The original thread may have been 6-32 UNC. Maybe the owner of the pristine one could check? Edit: I see that's you..... You can make a stand just from bent ally but like a lot of things it's only worth doing for the sake of it with things like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SOLDERING...edirect=mobile available.
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6th Apr 2019, 1:55 pm | #23 |
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Re: How to solder
I was taught to solder three times, once by my dad when I was six, second time at the PYE training school and finally by the "ladies on the line" at PYE TVT, they really knew how!
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7th Apr 2019, 1:56 am | #24 |
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Re: How to solder
Hi!
I got my soldering tuition from my Dad when I was 12, and yes I've spent the first thirty years fixings using Antex, Remploy and DeeGee irons as well! Apart from the nuisance of needing a second iron to replace the element in the first one, the biggest bugbear I had with Antex's was the later yellow versions – the black plastic round the heater element assemblies used to crumble away leaving a very hot and dangerously flopping about element and bit end! I didn't twig about mains leakage from irons in my early days of servicing, but that certainly explained why so few of the radios and amplifiers using germanium transistors didn't oblige me after fault–finding everything else – the mains–leakage had permanently destroyed the characteristics of the transistors! (I used to get mixer–oscillator stages that refused to oscillate, amplifier stages with hardly any gain and o/p stages that were far too inclined to collector–current runaway!) Since going into industrials full time twenty years ago with high–quality low–voltage Weller irons with accurate temp. control and proper ESD precautions, my casualty rate with soldering semiconductors has dropped to virtually near zero! Chris Williams
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12th Jul 2019, 7:46 am | #25 | |
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Re: How to solder
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Did you have the "M" Series irons in Britain?
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12th Jul 2019, 10:27 am | #26 |
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Re: How to solder
I still use one dark blue, I have often thought if they were made by antex
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16th Jul 2019, 9:47 am | #27 |
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Re: How to solder
I case they weren't sold in the UK, here is a 1960s Australian Adcola M Series M64 with a lovely red Bakelite handle, and its 1973 Metric replacement, the S50. M Series irons are now very hard to find in working order despite the large numbers made for Commonwealth Government departments, the post office, and the military.
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16th Jul 2019, 1:07 pm | #28 | |
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Leevers Rich stopped using them circa 1971,I think my Dad`s just died and he had a Weller by then. |
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18th Jul 2019, 12:03 pm | #29 |
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Re: How to solder
That sounds like the L Series, which had a bulbous Bakelite handle with a removable insulating tube covering the wire terminals. They were sold in Australia too. But the closest I've seen to the Australian M Series in British radio magazine ads is the Adcola Invader.
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18th Jul 2019, 1:25 pm | #30 |
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Re: How to solder
Hii any else got one of the "cold solder "irons was given a compleet kit i now see why. they work by putting a current across the part you are soldering
just the job for static sens devices. Its lost in my workshop somewhare Mick |
18th Jul 2019, 2:55 pm | #31 |
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Re: How to solder
Solon was my first purchase in the soldering iron world! I was seven at the time and walked about 5 miles to the hardware store. The store keeper gave me 2 ft of Ersin ready fluxed solder I can still remember the smell of it .Oh happy days
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19th Jul 2019, 5:40 pm | #32 |
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Re: How to solder
Not sure if memory is playing tricks on me but I seem to recall my original Antex irons having a sort of plastic hook sleeve on them so you could hang them up between solderings. I have a terry clip on the edge of one shelf nearby over the back of the workbench for shoving the handle of my current iron into and that works well - obviously it has to be well out of body area (head) range.
One of my most memorable soldering irons was a gun, like a shrunk down weller, in red plastic which appeared in NZ about 25 years ago. It was incredibly impressive in heat up time and overall heat once the trigger was pulled despite being very small - then after about 3 months it started to melt? Turned out someone at the factory had put the wrong labels on irons intended for the US market (115v) and of course with NZ's 235v mains they were somewhat overdriven. We were all give the proper 235v model later in a recall and exchange but, although the replacement was pretty good, it was not a patch on the wrong one for heating up times. |