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Post by unreg on Sept 9, 2021 11:28:52 GMT -5
gumbo… My undeserved title needs to be ‘Not An Electrician’. I’m glad that was the only flaw with my post. The holes are necessary for the pipe to connect the boxes; so electricians should relax; their vehicles will remain safe at traffic lights. 👍 And Closure Plugs are super cheap. And two came with each electrical box my uncle gave me. So I believe I needed two extremely cheap bags of closure plugs. Even have two remaining unused Closure Plugs. It was a cheap, fun, and extremely rewarding project! 👍😀 EDIT: gumbo & newey, thank you for the correction! 😊 FINAL-EDIT: And the pipe is necessary, to allow the wires to be routed through, to connect the dimmer to the electrical outlet. I’m sorry, I forgot about being enthused and surprised when my uncle told me to run the wires through the pipe.
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Post by davidofchatham on Sept 14, 2021 12:52:29 GMT -5
tl;dr: It’s quite a simple process. || frets soldering iron suggestion at the top of this thread comes with a temp control. 🙂 It does sound like a neat project, but given a general lack of free time, that I'm about thirty minutes from the nearest Home Depot or Lowe's, and my tendency to get bogged down in projects, I think I will still pass. frets' suggestion is interesting, but I wasn't sure how to actually find the iron. There doesn't seem to be a link. However, I'm planning to stick with what I have for now anyway ... again, not to make things any more complicated (or expensive). Thanks again! God bless you!
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Post by frets on Sept 14, 2021 13:19:06 GMT -5
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 15, 2021 2:54:55 GMT -5
Step right up, step right up. Batteries not included, free brochure, How low can we go!
My trusty Weller soldering station gave up the ghost a couple of years ago and I found myself in the invidious Catch22 position of having to buy a soldering iron to fix a soldering iron! The first thing I noticed was that the new one took a lot longer to come up to temperature, then I noticed how exceptionally beneficial it was to have the silicone rubber lead on the Weller. I took the base stand / temperature control part of the soldering station apart, and its construction was way better than the Weller's. Finally I noticed that there's a reason it has a thin silicone rubber sleeve- it gets hot!
I can guess that like my cheap replacement it has a relatively stiff lead compared to a Weller's silicone example, but it shows a two prong conductor in the images, I take it that it is not static safe C?
e&oe ...
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Post by gumbo on Sept 15, 2021 8:05:35 GMT -5
FWIW, Frets, the very first line of that link is all one needs to get to the item.... ....feel free to edit the rest if you want....
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Post by reTrEaD on Sept 15, 2021 8:10:59 GMT -5
FWIW, Frets, the very first line of that link is all one needs to get to the item.... Yep. Just delete everything after the ? www.ebay.com/itm/402890399257
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Post by gumbo on Sept 15, 2021 8:15:05 GMT -5
Step right up, step right up. Batteries not included, free brochure, How low can we go! I can guess that like my cheap replacement it has a relatively stiff lead compared to a Weller's silicone example, but it shows a two prong conductor in the images, I take it that it is not static safe C? e&oe ...I could be on another planet (sometimes it feels like that when I get up) but I would think that having a three-prong (grounded) lead would be more for your protection rather than potential static problems with whatever it is that you're soldering (pronounced "soLdering").... I would also think that the used-in-most-bedlamps inline On/Off switch would probably work as a fairly effective fuse in the event of something going horribly wrong, anyway.... ...just saying....
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Post by b4nj0 on Sept 15, 2021 13:51:05 GMT -5
Well, when I'm using a static mat and wrist strap, the "earth" pin is an obvious way to find a very low potential with respect to "ground". It matters very little for the guitar wiring that interests us, but it matters a a great deal for anything that comes in a static sensitive bag. I may have missed something obvious here but anyone that can offer a different take on it is welcome. We have PME (Protective Multiple Earthing) over here in The UK, and it is actually dangerous to introduce another "earth" alongside PME due to the risk associated with the potential difference in a neutral failure scenario. Same goes for antenna grounds /returns, So when I saw a two-prong plug, that was my first thought. Both my Weller soldering (soddering?) station and the cheap chinese one that I had to buy to repair the Weller have grounded tips.
e&oe ...
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Post by gumbo on Sept 16, 2021 6:24:16 GMT -5
Yep...confirms I'm on another Planet...
...actually wish I was today, given the big AUKUS announcement, since now they're going to be building nuclear (although our Prime Minister calls them 'nucular') submarines about thirty-five miles from me... sigh.
...if I buy anything in an anti-static bag, I'll try to make sure it's a cheese sandwich...
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Post by newey on Sept 16, 2021 9:55:15 GMT -5
..if I buy anything in an anti-static bag, I'll try to make sure it's a cheese sandwich.. I'd say not, since if the cheese sandwich got sufficient electricity through it, you'd have a nice grilled cheese sandwich. . . . . .And, we're now officially off the rails. gumbo, just doing his job here . . .
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Post by davidofchatham on Sept 16, 2021 10:26:50 GMT -5
Hey Soldering Dudes, It’s a 60 watt clone of a Haiko 900 soldering iron that can be found on EBay. www.ebay.com/itm/402890399257 [...] Woah!! That’s a link. If this link doesn’t take you there, just search on “Soldering Iron with Temperature Control”. You can also find it on AliExpress. It’s blue and has the Temperature in Fahrenheit on a dial on the shaft. I’ve been using my second one for at least a year, everyday. Thanks for the link, frets! I can hardly believe how cheap that kit is. I would almost certainly think it was a piece of junk if not for your experience!
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Post by unreg on Sept 16, 2021 10:36:18 GMT -5
Thank you davidofchatham for rerailing us. 👍 ..if I buy anything in an anti-static bag, I'll try to make sure it's a cheese sandwich.. I'd say not, since if the cheese sandwich got sufficient electricity through it, you'd have a nice grilled cheese sandwich. . . Nonetheless, that counts as a ‘cheese sandwich’, despite it being grilled or charred or neither. 😉
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