Ummm ... solder pot not required. All of the Elecraft kits I've built,
including my K2, used heat-strippable wire for the toroids. Small blob
of solder on the iron, stick end of wire into it, wait a few seconds,
when insulation bubbles and smokes, insert wire into blob slowly as far
as you need to. End of wire is not only stripped, it's now tinned too.
I used a separate larger iron I had that happened to have a flat-ish end
which held a good solder blob but occasionally did it with my Weller
Solder Station I was using for the actual soldering. I wiped it off
every now and then when the insulation and rosin had accumulated. I did
not find it frustrating at all.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 6/12/2020 2:01 PM, William Hammond via Elecraft wrote:
I have suffered through the painful process of removing the enamel on the wire
on just about all of the Elecraft kits..K2, K1, KX1, tuner’s etc.. I think I
have made them all...just reading the comments here I was wondering why I never
bought a solder pot as recommended...I checked out eBay and found several at
around $30 USD,,why didn’t I do that 10 -15 elecraftyears ago and save all that
frustration?? Chinese made, some 120 volt..perhaps will work for several
kits...If I had it to do again..
73, Bill-AK5X
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