I
don't think that there was any heat sink; I soldered the coaxial core first,
then the braid. The jack was already mounted to the panel. And the
coaxial was soldered to the PCB, of course. Nothing else was locally
physically connected, and none of the solder local solder joints melted.
If there was any solder on the poor joint, and I applied more heat to the braid,
it wouldn't even heat the existing solder.
I
think I'll take Paul S.'s suggestion, and ask Santa for a nice Weller for
xmas.
Thanks
for the help!
--PBr
-----Original Message-----
From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:48 AM
To: MOTM Forum All
Subject: FW: [motm] Remedial soldering 101Is something acting as a heat sink in the area? Seems unlikely, but...
Either that or the thermostat is going in your iron. My Weller is 16 years old and hasn't failed but I hear it happens.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brousseau, Paul E (Paul) [mailto:noise@Avaya.com]
...It feels like I couldn't get the braided wire hot enough to meld with the solder. At one point, though, one of the braids become brittle and snapped as I flexed it. Surely this isn't very good. I had my (cheap Radio Shack) soldering iron set to "high", which has consistantly worked in the past...