On 16/02/2014 01:36, N_Cook wrote:
On 15/02/2014 13:29, Chris Jones wrote:
On 13/02/2014 06:21, N_Cook wrote:
I cannot find any major suppliers of these bits anymore in the UK,
despite the likes of RS selling magnastat irons.
I have a few hundred NOS , plated copper long cone bits, not Weller or
Cooper AFAIK, that take about 10 minutes to convert to magnastat ,
assuming you have the curie temp magnastat end caps from old bits
hanging around, easily removed when you know how.
If any interest I'll post more details, I'll not be around long enough
to have used up a few hundred
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/pro...jsp?sku=416435
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/pro...jsp?sku=416691


I've never seen a "Frenchman" style before but the tip diameter and
general conicity? looks much the same as the popular long conical type

As usual at least one of the pictures on the Farnell site is wrong, but
if you get the manufacture's part number and look it up elsewhere you
can see what shape it is. Those are the two kinds of Weller tips I use
regularly, one of them is fine and conical and the other is a big fat
one for large terminals. I do all my really fine soldering with a Metcal
these days.

Chris