Lynn,

I've always liked a Weller soldering gun for that kind of work.  The tip
gets quite hot, but it cools off fairly quickly.  I also like to put the
connector into a vice just to keep it from moving around.  I've never seen
a coax cable stripper, but I think I'll have to check one out.

Steve

On Thursday 2/19/04 23:46 Lynn Roberts N8LXK wrote:
>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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>-----Original Message-----
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>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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