I had a hand-held butane soldering iron that worked well out of the house.
A quick search on eBay shows both butane and also some battery powered
soldering irons.
73 Darrell AB2E
> From: jim.thom@telus.net
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:43:55 -0800
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Cordless solder irons
>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:10:23 -0800
> From: "Don " <w7wll@arrl.net>
> To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Some advice about crimp ;type coax connectors
>
> Which brings a question to mind. Why is there not available for sale a
> decent battery powered soldering iron. Sure would be nice when in the air
> not to be tied to an AC power cord. I did a search (probably not very deep)
> and found some battery powered irons but nothing that would deal with a few
> UHF connectors out and away from the 'house'. A friend from Australia who
> was in the 2-way radio business had a couple he brought when he immigrated
> from Oz but I've been unable to find that they are made anymore.
>
> Anyone have information on such a tool for use whilst up in the air??
>
> Don W7WLL
>
> ## from 1979-1989...in the telco I worked in 400 miles north of here, we had
> a cordless, rechargeable soldering iron. Think it was a weller...was orange
> in colour.
> Worked superb.... but never tried it outside.. only inside. They were real
> small, light weight,
> fit in your pocket. A lot smaller than a normal pencil iron. I believe
> they would work fine
> outside. A comment here. Silver plated PL-259s are a LOT easier to solder vs
> the nickel plated types. I gave up on amphenol nickel plated /teflon
> PL-259s.
>
> ## I picked up 2 dozen van gordon silver /teflon PL-259 years ago. They
> solder
> real easy.
>
> ## Id check out cordless types 1st. You can probably get em with spare,
> quick swap out
> lithium batteries no doubt. The propane /butane types would also work, but
> are more cumbersome
> heavy etc... esp up a tower. In good wx... Id run an extension cord up the
> tower..and use my
> american beauty 100 w iron, with the .375 inch chisel tip. We used dozens
> of those irons in the telco,
> back when a lot of wiring was still being soldered. I have a few of them.
> You can also get the bigger
> ones, like 150w and up to 600 watt. The 100 w version... used to solder a
> silver plated coax connector,
> is super fast. The bigger ones like the 500-600w are used for
> plumbing..where a blow torch cant be used.
> The bigger ones work great for stuff like tubing type tank coils, large wide
> cu strap, etc.
>
> Jim VE7RF
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