Jody,
I believe with a coax stripper, you could just take the outer jacket off
an rg-58 or an rg-8 rf cable. Radio Shack carries 278-248 Deluxe Coax
Cable Stripper. It should work for you. But don't use BNC coax
connectors from Radio Shack for use with RG-58. As far as I know theirs
don't allow for soldering. Their PL-259 plugs are available in solder
and no-solder versions. Applied properly the solder version should work.

I'm sighted so I use a 100 watt iron for use with PL-259's and a 30 watt
iron for use with BNC and general pc board soldering. However they don't
make an iron with a heat shielded element that I know of, maybe somebody
on the list does.
The tip gets very hot. Soldering gun tips also get hot.
Lynn
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From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:30 PM
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Subject: Re: help with soldering iron selection


I am also interested in soldering information.  I have been told that I
can't strip a coax and solder a connecter because I can't see the
layers.  I never accept this excuse and I wonder what other people have
done to adapt to this problem.

73s
JODY
KB1DCS


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