DIY Repairs and Maintenance
Cordless Solder Iron Troubleshooting
How to troubleshoot the 7700: Test the Charging Stand: The charging stand pins should stick out approx. 1/8″ from the bottom of the base of the plastic pocket they are in. Use a multimeter set for DC voltage and check the those pins. They should read around1.6 to 1.8V. If they don’t read that then [...]
Using the Pro50 Torch to Bend Acrylic
For another project we are working on we have some 1/8″ clear acrylic we are looking at. As long as it was on the desk I thought I’d try forming it with the Pro50 and the torch head. Sure enough, after a pretty short time – 15 seconds? I was able to put a nice [...]
Solder Paste on Zinc Die Casting
So, the question of the day was will the solder paste solder zinc alloy. Zinc alloy is pretty broad range of materials and so the first answer was – I don’t know. That’s pretty weak so we found a zinc die cast part we use and tested it. This was a Zinc AG40A die cast, [...]
Solder Paste on Stainless Steel
We had a question from a customer the other day about using the silver bearing solder paste with stainless steel. Having never tried that yet we figured the best approach would be to test it and see. We got some 302 stainless brackets we use and drilled a bit of a hole in it. Then [...]
Reader Ingenuity: Clean Contacts to Improve Connection
After Robert came to us with some great improvement ideas for our rechargeable soldering irons, we just had to share. We’re especially thrilled with his maintainance of the contact points, and you can bet we are looking into his other ideas as well. Here’s his letter: I have used Wahl (Editor’s note: Wahl = Iso-Tip) [...]
