It won't work for SMD stuff, but over the years I've had great success using a classic Ungar 27W cartridge (which I seem to remember was around 850°F) with a screw-ON 1/8" screwdriver tip for just about everything but the heaviest jobs. This includes lots of building stuff with standard through-hole DIP components. I never overcooked anything. The beauty of a big hot iron is it lets you get in, heat the work and get off quickly. Low wattage irons just cook the components and the board. Nowadays, like everybody else, I use a very small iron that produces a 750°F tip temperature for the small parts and dense connector pins, but I still use the old one for most everything else. It's the curse of the OFs: our eyesight continually gets worse as the parts continually get smaller.
73... Randy, W8FN On 04/26/2012 18:26, W9HAK wrote: > I have a new solder iron that is temperature > controlled in degrees C. > What temp should I set the iron for work on the > K3? I am using 60/40 > rosin core, small diameter solder. While using > solder wick to clean out > the holes from the 12 dc mod kit I used 300c and > dipped the wick in > solder flux. I pulled the solder wick across the > land when the solder > was liquid, it cleaned the holes on the first pass. > > Smith Bradford ______________________________________________________________ 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
