I second these tweezers. They're great. While Elecraft supplies heat strippable wire, everything else I have isn't and the tweezers make easy work of it.
73, Byron N6NUL On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 5:43 PM Peter Hall <p.h...@curtin.edu.au> wrote: > > Hi Gwen, > > I love my Hakko FR301 de-soldering gun but, while I've used a variety of > melt/burn techniques for enamel wire insulation, I had not thought of using > the de-soldering tool. I haven't noticed anyone mention wire stripping > tweezers, which I've found to be a really handy tool when making inductors > with a variety of wire sizes. I settled on a single size tweezer: > > https://au.element14.com/knipex/15-11-120/wire-stripper-0-6mm/dp/875958?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6Ongl-b99AIVwg5yCh3cgwwJEAQYASABEgLFsPD_BwE&mckv=_dc|pcrid|501152839127|pkw||pmt||slid||product|875958|pgrid|123988903131|ptaid|pla-293946777986|&CMP=KNC-GAU-GEN-SMART-SHOPPING > > Purists would probably have a few different sizes but the one referenced > deals with my requirements for small receiving toroids, up to (e.g.) the LPF > inductors in the 2200 m PA I've just finished (about 16 AWG, as I recall). > These tweezers are very sharp and quite compact, so they can be angled to > optimize the tinned lengths on e.g. partially-mounted toroids. It's a > slightly longer and calmer process than the melt/burn approach. > > 73, Peter (VK6HP). > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> On > Behalf Of Gwen Patton > Sent: Saturday, 25 December 2021 3:53 AM > To: Elecraft <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Stripping & Tinning Enameled Wire - Fast, Easy, > Reliably > > I'd love to have one of those vacuum desoldering tools. I feel in techno-lust > with them watching Mr. Carlson's Lab on YouTube. I might try that trick you > discovered, but I found that my electronic plasma arc lighter burns off > enamel on anything but the thickest of magnet wire. Hold the wire with > pliers, though, the inductance heats the wire very fast, and the enamel burns > off in a twinkling. > > I'd avoid using the plasma arc trick on a toroid already soldered to the > board at the other end. That might let out more than a little bit of magic > smoke. > > 73, > Gwen, NG3P > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 12:35 PM CUTTER DAVID via Elecraft < > elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to > > ard...@gmail.com > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message > delivered to p.h...@curtin.edu.au > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to by...@n6nul.org -- - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2022 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
