Eric, How did you make out with your T1? Have you finished it? Does it work? I read your thread with interest because I had just ordered a T1 myself.
I just ran into the same soldering difficulty with relays K9-K15. I'm no dummy with a soldering iron either. I've built a K1, two K2s, W1, several Elecraft mini kits, Rock-Mites, and a few OHR kits. Removing several feet of the Kester 66/44 I'm using didn't help. What seemed to work for me is to melt a big blob on the tip of the iron until I could see a good build up of flux. Then wipe it clean and hit the solder pad. Still not easy, but it worked. By the way I can use the same piece of solder on any other connection and solder flows just fine. I don't think it's a bad section of solder as some have suggested. Yes, it seems to be lack of flux, but it seems that just those pads on k9-K15 need more flux for some reason. We'll see if it works when I complete the kit. Thought you'd be interested in my experience. 73, Chuck K4QS ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
