Randy, I must make a comment about a couple of your statements.
One, we are age challenged not OF's. Come on got to be PC. Eh? The other is the parts aren't actually getting smaller. We have to hold them farther away cause of our glasses so they look smaller! OK, it was all tongue in check. The blasted things are getting so darn small even magnifying glasses don't work for this OF's eyes! Tim Herrick, KQ8M Charter Member North Coast Contesters [email protected] AR-Cluster V6 kq8m.no-ip.org User Ports: 23, 7373 with local skimmer, 7374 without local skimmer Server Ports: V6 3607, V4 Active 3605, V4 Passive 3606 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Farmer Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] solder iron correct temp in C for K3 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
