Well, its still butt cold where I live and doing solder jobs out in the garage is getting harder and harder because its getting colder and colder. But I discovered something that is getting me out of there quicker. I am using my heat gun on my Hako iron to keep the heat up on it. I can do more joints, faster if I keep my tip heated by my heat gun on high while I move to the next joint. I don't have to wait as long between solder joints and/or removing the old caps. I have found that preheating my solder wick little helps remove the solder a little faster from the old stuff that I want to remove. Just something to think about.
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Re: A trick that might help you out in my (your) cold garage/shop...
Thanks for the tip, Scott. I ended up becoming frustrated with cheap-o soldering irons, and finally invested in a GREAT ceramic-element iron.
I think I paid near 50 dollars, but it's been in use for 3 years now, and heats up SUPER fast, and STAYS hot. I can do tiny jobs with a small chisel, and large jobs are even a piece of cake. I've soldered battery packs together for RC cars with this iron and a large chisel tip. And if you have done that, you KNOW that you need heat SUPER FAST and a LOT of it to get the bars soldered to the battery terminals.
I bought it from Inland Craft. Here is a link:
http://www.inlandcraft.com/PIsheets/PIinstaheat.htm
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