On 1/2/2013 5:05 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:

On 1/2/2013 4:16 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:

On 1/1/2013 9:43 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
I don't remember if I posted this here yet or not, so...

I bought a ColdHeat soldering iron and it came yesterday. When I
tried soldering a couple of 18ga stranded copper wires together,
it failed miserably. It didn't seem to get hot enough to melt the
solder into the strands at all, although it melted about 1.5" of thin
solder.

Tips to get it to work (on the 14ga wire I bought it for) would be
appreciated. Would liquid flux help at all? It seemed like the
carbonized tip got nice and hot but the wire didn't.

I didn't think they would work, energy density is too low...no free lunch.


A pair of AA Alkalines just don't pout out enough current.

They weren't designed to work, they were designed to sell!


I laughed when I saw their hokey commercial, years ago. Some idiot
on an antique radio group was trying to convince everyone tat they were
the greatest tool ever made. Of course, he had about 75 that were store
returns to sell...


Do they still make "multicore" solder? I'm getting low on the last roll
I bought 20 years ago. The stuff will alloy to ANYTHING!