1. Get a good soldering station. I finally bit the bullet a few years ago and got a Hakko FX-888 with a controller and soldering iron holder. 2. Always clean and tin your tip every time you use it. 3. Install a new tip when the soldering iron stops working well. That 20 (or 40) year old tip is garbage. Buy tips in quantity. 4. Not totally required, but I crimp before I solder.
Laing On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM Ted Durant <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2025, at 7:44 PM, Ben Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone got some tips of soldering these bad boys one? What's your > experience, are they easy and I'm just terrible at soldering? (a definite > possibility!) > > > I’m terrible at it. And I don’t have good equipment. Bad combo! But I > managed to make it work on my Great Lakes Sam setup. > > > Ted Durant > Milwaukee, WI USA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/FA92CEC8-684B-4D83-9650-8BA20FF63D24%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/FA92CEC8-684B-4D83-9650-8BA20FF63D24%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CADXkOiMxK68TVktmT-MAyoWKiHX2ptigM8r4sR6Rwpggb8Y%3DAw%40mail.gmail.com.
