<VV> Soldering wire connections (no Corvair)

[Tony Underwood]

At 03:57 hours 03/13/2006, Frank DuVal wrote:
>If a Weller brand soldering gun will not heat wires enough to flow 
>solder, then your tip nuts are not tight. Use a 3/8" wrench to 
>loosen the nuts a half turn and them tighten them till the nut 
>squeaks. If you do this often enough the tip will always get hot, 
>but you may need visegrips to clamp the rounded off nuts! Luckily 
>Weller sells tips with nuts for those who round off the flats. 
>(7135N). One can also use #12 awg solid as a tempoorary tip. Or use 
>#12 solid as an extention to the tip for those times a smaller tip is needed.



...as long as it's not one of those poseur Weller guns with the 
aluminum "secondary" which never can keep a decent grip on the tip no 
matter how tight you wring those nuts.     Get the *real* Weller gun 
with the nickel plated brass secondary.    They'll last for a decade 
or more before you finally manage to drop it enough to crack the 
case, and even then you can buy replacement case halves for cheap.


tony..