10-07-2011, 08:16 PM
I'm with Rob on this one. I have a Weller TCP as my normal iron and a 100W Weller which uses the same Curie Point principle of temperature control as the smaller one. The 100W jobbie can handle almost anything I throw at it such as capacitor blocks, chassis solder tags and even brass components that need to be machined as splitable pairs such as eccentric straps and bearing blocks. I bought it in Germany but have not seen one in the UK but they must be available as I have bought bits for it here.
It was quite common to lift the earth from a soldering iron before the H&S worries - perhaps we thought that the kit was more important than the engineer in those days :D:D.
It was quite common to lift the earth from a soldering iron before the H&S worries - perhaps we thought that the kit was more important than the engineer in those days :D:D.
