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Re: [HCDX] Repairing the beverage
My Beverages run through a thick, wooded area and take
a beating during the winter months. Something you may
want to consider using for soldering spliced wire,
while a few hundred feet from an electrical outlet, is
Radio Shack low-heat tape solder. I found it heats up
and bonds quite well with just an ordinary butane
lighter, even during winter.
I started using tape solder after wasting my money on
a battery operated ColdHeat soldering iron for use
outside the home. The thing doesn't heat up for beans
under optimum indoor conditions.
Scott
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From: "Jim Barrett" <jbarrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Repairing the beverage
To: "Patrick Martin" <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>,
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Patrick,
If you need to solder wire in cold weather, use a
propane torch. A
torch is
best suited to uninsulated stranded copper wire, as
the heat will cause
the
insulation on typical "zip cord" extension wire to
melt back on either
side
of the spice - but it will deliver enough heat to make
a perfect solder
joint in just seconds - even if the ambient temps are
quite cold. Use
rather
heavy gauge rosin-core solder, and set the flame as
low as possible.
It's
best to do it when the winds are calm.
I constructed a 300-foot horizontal loop that had six
spices - all of
which
were soldered in this fashion. It has held up
perfectly through 4
northeastern winters.
Jim Barrett
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From: "Patrick Martin" <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>;
<hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 15:00
Subject: [HCDX] Repairing the beverage
> Greetngs,
>
> After our storms this Winter, especially the big one
in early
December,
> the Eastern beverage got busted up and it took me
several weeks to
> finally get it back up. It was too cold and wet to
solder the
splices
so
> I just twisted the splices and taped then up for the
time being. I
got
> out yesterday and soldered two splices, as we were
up into the 50s
F,
so
> my little butane soldering pencil worked okey, but
there was a
wind,
so
> keeping it lit was not always easy. I was thinking
of buying
another
250
> feet of outdoor extention cord to give me 500 feet
total. With
that,
I
> would have enough to reach the other splices that
aren't soldered
on
the
> beverage. I have a Radio Shack soldering gun
(100/140 watts).
Would
the
> soldering gun work running it through that much
extention cord? If
so,
> would it harm the transformer in the gun? I fiqure a
A/C soldering
> pencil would not be harmed as there is no
tranformer, but I don't
have
> A/C soldering pencil that has much wattage. The gun
would work
better.
> With a pencil, if the voltage dropped too low the
pencil would not
get
> hot enough, but with the transforer in the gun, I
have no clue.
Does
> anyone know? If running 500 feet of extention cord
would work, I
will
go
> buy another 250 feet. I have run the soldering gun
through 200
feet
of
> cord and that worked ok. I also have a deep cycle
12V battery I
could
> use with an 120v inverter, but thing weighs 70
pounds and not that
easy
> to carry. Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> 73,
>
> Patrick
>
> Patrick Martin
> KAVT Reception Manager
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