On Friday 25 March 2016 13:23:52 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-03-25 09:29 (UTC-0400): > > the U.S. industry, since General Cement is gone, cannot sell me a > > tweezer-like soldering iron needed to remove them so fresh ones can > > be put in their place. And even the GC iron sold 20+ years ago had > > to be run on a powerstat set for as low as 60 volts else it ran so > > hot it destroyed the board. > > http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/TENMA-21-8230-/21-8230 wouldn't > do it?
Possibly, that looks a lot like the one I used (handles are identical) back in the later 90's but with different tips. Two problems, the major one being that it STILL has a 2 wire line cord, so no static grounding and the heater barrels are some sort of metal that isn't conducive to making a good electrical ground connection to, and it needs to be run on a small powerstat so you can turn the voltage down to the 60-65 range otherwise its way the hell and gone too hot 4 or 5 minutes after you turn it on, and when doing the caps in a DVC-pro vcr, it will be on for at least 6 hours of the working day. Even then, I found it hot enough to cause the pencil eraser sized caps to explode as I was removing them. The copper tips are always annealed and very easily bend as you compress that spring to bring the tips to a spacing suitable for warming both side contacts, and that 20 thousandths of bend puts the tips in full contact with the sides of the caps & they pop about like Orville Redenbauchers finest. But as usual, it was the best we had at the time, so when in Rome... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
