Which model Master Appliance iron/torch are you using? Is it the UT-300Si?
FWIW, it looks like the Solder Pro and Master Appliance tools are made in
the same factory...
73, Dick WC1M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Labinsky Jr. [mailto:K2STN@frontier.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:04 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax connectors
>
> Now if you want to talk butane soldering irons, let's take a look at those
from
> Master Appliance.
>
> I have a Solder Pro 120, have used it for years. Used it to solder 58U
cable to
> 3/4" Motorola (NMO) mounts. Nice iron... but! In the winter it juuuuust
> about almost had enough heat to do the shield connection using the biggest
> flat blade tip available. As long as it wasn't too windy.
>
> The big Master guy on the other hand... he's like an old fashioned 100
watt
> plug-in soldering iron, the kind with a two prong plug, cotton covered
cord
> and a half inch diameter copper tip. You touch it to the work, the solder
> flows! Don't care how cold it is outside. Well, actually I do, it gets
> awfully uncomfortable up in the crosswind on top of a school bus roof in
the
> winter. But hey, that's where the antenna is, it's been torn out of the
roof
> and the mount's shot... well, it's a living.
>
> The only fly in this ointment? Cost! The Master goes for about 4 times
the
> 120's price. But when it's needed, it's well worth it!
>
> Oh, BTW, watch the kind of fuel you buy. Have used some supposedly good
> stuff which was contaminated with... well, I forget what the Solder Pro
folks
> said that it was They even commented that for a short time the
> contaminated fuel was even ruining brand new irons as they were being
> tested at the factory, or so I was told when I tried to send mine back for
> warranty service many years ago. They, instead, sent me a new valve and
> orifice assembly... the bad ones were literally gummed up with a jelly
like
> polymer goo. The only stuff I was told to use was the Master Appliance
fuel.
> That I buy from Grainger.
>
> Stan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W3YY
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 10:36 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax connectors
>
> Weller also makes one like that. I have one and it works great on top of
the
> tower, though I am trying to move toward other kinds connections up there
> whenever possible.
>
> 73, Bob - W3YY
>
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