I use a Master Appliance Ultratorch...I like it.
Lee, AA4GA
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 5:40 PM Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Master Appliance has amazing heat tools that start with a flame and then
> you extinguish it and it uses a catalyst to reach higher temperatures than
> a regular butane torch. I have used one high on a tower in the wind. You
> will never go back to a regular torch.
>
> Chuck W5PR
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 3:59 PM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> >
> > Long time since I've posted, but read most of your emails at least
> weekly,
> > if not daily.
> >
> >
> >
> > Trying to solder up some wires out in the field here before contest
> season
> > and even during nice warm T-shirt weather, with any kind of a breeze my
> > cheapie $40 butane soldering iron sometimes won't get hot enough to patch
> > (solder) a stranded #12AWG wire back together. What do I need?
> >
> >
> >
> > I've soldered with a small el-cheapo butane (raw) torch (not ideal)
> >
> > I've soldered with a small butane powered soldering iron.works "OK" if
> it's
> > warm outside (5 months of the year) and there is no breeze. (almost never
> > here on the Ridge)
> >
> >
> >
> > What are you guys using for your field repairs? Something by Weller? How
> > many Watt equivalent?
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't want a $25 Amazon cheapie. Already been down that road. But
> also
> > probably don't need a $500 unit for those few times a year I am too far
> > from
> > the house not to use a variety of my electric irons.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks and keep on towertalkin'
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike VE9Antenna Antenna
> >
> >
> >
> > Keswick Ridge, NB
> >
> >
> >
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