The Doctor
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2007 10:40:21 GMT -5
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Post by sumgai on Jul 7, 2007 11:52:52 GMT -5
Snatch it up, but get some solder too. (Chances are the only stuff available now is RoHS compliant, but make sure it says so.)
Find and buy a sturdy stand for when the iron is hot!
A sponge helps to keep the tip clean - wipe it after every use, before putting the iron back on the stand. (Keep the sponge damp, not soaked.)
Buy a quality solder sucker - you will make mistakes! ;D
HTH
sumgai
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reeced
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Post by reeced on Jul 7, 2007 11:53:53 GMT -5
That one should do fine. The "toughest" job is soldering the earth wires to the backs of the pots, and you need 30W to do that.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 7, 2007 20:05:51 GMT -5
Cool, £3.50, can't go wrong!
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darguitar
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Post by darguitar on Jul 8, 2007 17:32:00 GMT -5
The iron looks fine. I've been using an Antex 30 watt iron for the past couple of years. The sell in the UK for between £10 - £15, and is a great investment if you are going to be doing more than the occasional solder job. The iron bit is quite flat(and are interchangable), which is great for soldering onto the back of a pot for example. The iron in the picture looks to have a fine point on it. I have found the 1st time solderer finds these type of tips difficult to use effectively. However, practice maketh perfect!! Good Luck
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2007 10:39:43 GMT -5
I already have some soldering experience, as I am a trained electrician, but havn't done any soldering for 3 years
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 10, 2007 12:41:23 GMT -5
Just make sure that you use electronic solder and not plumber's solder and paste (highly corrosive) flux.
Lead-based solder is real hard to find now (which we will all rightfully blame on the EU/CE).
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 10, 2007 15:48:30 GMT -5
Electriconics solder is called "Tinman's Solder" as it is 60% Tin and 40% lead, plumbers solder is 60% Lead and 40% Tin and is also fluxless, where Tinman's Solder usually contains flux.
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Post by Ripper on Jul 11, 2007 12:22:10 GMT -5
Sumgai....
Interesting you brought up the RoHS.
When I got my new Stratocaster a few months back I noticed an RoHS sticker on the tags attatched to the new guitar and wondered what they meant. I did find out on my own, but are they switching over because of too much lead content?
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Post by sumgai on Jul 11, 2007 19:12:23 GMT -5
deep, Yeah, pretty much so. The do-gooders of the world have finally gotten the attention of several big governments, and the result is, with the usual overkill, that all products that used to have any kind of lead content in them (meaning virtually everything ever made that proposed to move electrons about in some fashion) now have to appear with that sticker on it, at the retail level. It's to "inform" the retail customer that he isn't perpetuating the harm done to the environment caused by using such nasty stuff as lead. I truly wonder what the hell they're gonna do when they've gotten rid of all the lead they can, only to find a few nukes pointed our way by a madman, and we have no shielding left. Are they gonna come build us some bomb/radiation shelters that are RoHS compliant? Consider the tag to be the modern day equivalent of the Pillow Tag. Hmmmm, my usually well-mannered and orderly self just had a frain bart......... what would happen if I assembled a band of musicians called........ RoHS (Pronounced 'Ross', the joke wouldn't be obvious until you saw the name in print.) We could claim that we're compliant with the specification, and that the listener could take our tags off after..... oh, wait.... uh, bad idea. Never mind. ;D sumgai
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