Hi guys
I’ve been a user of a loverly weller iron back in the day , them things were crazy good , now I’ve got a hakko 936 clone (stamos) polish/German company
It’s identical to the hakko apart from the plug for irons
It’s got a aviation type plug
I’ve been using it for mainly wires and small bits and pieces
So I thought it would be good for torches
Bought a 17mm driver from lexel , it was loverly and beautifully built
So I desired to put a spring on it , soldering away i tinned the center piece quite nicely then put a spring there (after I tinned the spring ) proceeded to heat the solder up for them to bond and after a miniute if heating it wasn’t bonding , so I had a closer look what was happening , the pcb was super hot , even though I set my iron to 250 –300oC and it wasn’t bonding , so I put it to 350oC and tried again, still no bonding , I desided to put up the temperature and have a even closer look , the tinyAT on the other side of the board has become loose and desired to wonder off , a power transistor also decided to go for a walk also , transistors are a problem I can put that back
I’m not going to give up !!! I was at electronics collage (ok a long long time ago) but the teacher/professor even said my solder skills were the best he’s seen in a while
It’s been a long time since I was soldering pcbs though but once you have the ability to solder it shouldn’t even leave your right ?
I think maybe my tip was shitty , but I had itchy fingers and needed to do this spring and get it read for the torch host in the post , I bought the hakko clone a few weeks ago and only really turned it on in the last week , so maybe I need to practice with it , I bought new tips also , but when it did come I took apart the iron and checked the heater,tip, etc
Question 1
When fitting anew tip to a soldering iron should I make the heat transfer as good as possible , between the heater and tip should I put some heat paste ? This is one idea I had
Question 2 should I buy a weller iron and use it with my hakko box , I can rewrite the iron easily if it needs it , they are both 24volts and use a thermocouple, I’ve got the schematics for both plugs I think (somewhere)
Question 3 has anyone else done something like this and thought to them self if you’ve lost motivation and the skill to solder
Thanks guys
Sorry super long post