Glad I use the sandpaper method on my toroid leads lol. In fact, funny this should come up, because I just started winding my new K2's toroids this evening. But the solder blob method fails on this kit in exactly the same way as it did on my first K2 some years ago. It's possible that the tip in my iron is too cold (weller WTCPT with 700f tip), but I can hold it onto the wire forever and it'll never bubble up and burn off. Go figure....
But as others have noted, it scrapes off pretty easily so I just use some fine sandpaper and I can clean them almost all the way up to the hilt (the toroid body). Works perfectly as long as I'm not too aggressive and remove too much metal. I too kind of like the smell of flux, but I try to keep from breathing it in too much. 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Stripping-toroid-leads-tp7615955p7615960.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
