What did you last use your soldering iron on?? Just for Fun

[M0TZO]

Been a bit quiet here of late, so time for a few fun topics.

The last thing I used my rarely used soldering iron on was the cable connectors to my Hustler 6-BTV. It consisted of 2 different sized washers with extra bits for soldering the coax to it.

Can I ask for one reply each, so this post won't get bogged down with lots of replies. You can start new topics to expand discussions, thanks.

Now your turn.

[2e0sql]

a year ago doing a XLR cable at uni and I burnt myself in the process! that being said need to do my intermediate kit at some point!

[M0TTB]

a year ago doing a XLR cable at uni and I burnt myself in the process! that being said need to do my intermediate kit at some point!

or failing that, a medical kit :lol:
I think a rather boring pl259 jobby was my last with an iron, I had about 4m of excess rg8x on my 2/70 antenna, and finally got around to chopping it off. I just know that I'll have a shack reorganisation and regret it :roll:

... before that I hard wired a length of dc cable into my Welz pwr/swr meter, as I can't find any plugs to fit the 12v input on the thing. I can live without the PEP feature but it was just annoying me and I was a bit bored at the time.

[N4AJZ]

Motherboard of a Gateway computer.




N4AJZ
Jim

[5B4AJB]

My rear bike light, I converted an old "Ever Ready" square type, to LED's.
Being a cheapskate, I just soldered the batteries onto the wires & no matter how much packing foam I use inside around the battery, the wire keeps coming off :(

The refelector is brilliant and the lens is big, looks good with ex "sun lamp" LED's dancing around inside, the most visible one I've bodged yet!

[K7KBN]

My scanner just died last week. Went to turn it on and nothing. Checked the wall-wart and it was good. So, I opened the scanner up (HP 3970) to see if there was anything obvious. Underneath an electrolytic capacitor which was lying on its side was...a fuse! Checked, and it was open! "Ah," sez I, "not all that obvious but a possible fix."

It's a solder-in fuse, 1.25A@250V, and about 1/2 inch long. Not very common, but I had some fairly compact 1.5A fuses, to which I soldered some leads after wire brushing the end caps to remove the nickel plating. Connected it back up and reassembled the scanner. Voila! Works just like it's supposed to!

Pat K7KBN

[M0HAK]

Making a PTT switch for my new Heil Pro-Set Plus that I got for my birthday.

Andy

[m0bov]

Soldering on some big 75Amp Powerpole connectors for the mobile setup. I had an MFJ Battery Booster to try out! :D

used my soldering iron to construct a home made,home designed portable 20m telescopic 6ft antenna with counterpoise.works ok as long as there's not a bad pile up(and the propagations reasonably good)

[g7vhj]

every day at work for surface mount devices and discreet componants aswell as various leads,pluds and connectors all with the one iron as i am too lazy to go to the surface mount iron

[ei7gnb]

last time I used my iron was this time last year putting some PL259s onto a bit of coax for a patch lead :P

73, Jon 2IØJVI/A (UUC)

[Leosv]

anytime I add anything to my car (CB, stereo..) and for little experiment circuits at home. nothing drastic, just more reliable then electric tape and not as bulky as twist caps.

[wildsmith]

Last night building a morse keyer for my Intermediate practical assesment project :)

[MW0YAA]

Last time was about 2 months ago converting a 600W PC PSU to run my shack.

Replaced the "missing" filter components and coupling the leads together.

The next thing will be my intermediate project which will be a Switch mode PSU as soon as i've finished drawing the diagram for it :roll:

[2M0JAS]

Oh lets see.....last time I think was soldering the connections of a 20mtr dipole I made out of speaker wire to hang from my window here.

Got myself a new solderstation that I need to give a test run on but not got anything I can use it for as yet. :cry:

[asandberg6]

I was testing some mild steel mechanics wire to see if it would solder for antenna use. Before that it was the power leads on an ICOM IC-28H, and befor that the power cord on my ASTRON RS-35A.

[5B4AJB]

I built a wind charger from an old servo and six bridge rectifiers - woohoo six phase rectification!

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[alloydog]

I've been using mine, now almost every day for the past few weeks - I have been stripping down old stuff, such as an old PC, digibox and stereo amplifier, for the components. After over a twenty year lull, it's time to get active again.

[kl2by]

RG-8 259 connectors so I could put my HF and VHF/UHF antennas up.

[m0lsx]

I de-soldered a joint for someone on Thursday. But it was "A" soldering iron, not "MY" soldering iron.

[R1155A]

I last used my iron, about an hour ago, on my National HRO MX receiver. I've increaded the value of the anode resistor on the BFO, to reduce the injection level. Gone from 10K to 220K, which is the correct value. A previous owner fitted a 10K to inccrease the injection level to the extent where the AVC could be used on SSB and CW signals. The B+ was taken from the anode of the AF amp valve and so full voume could not be used without the radio chuffing.
I re-capped it a few months back. It had already been done in the 1960s but the old TCC "Metalmite" caps were past their best. The original caps were wax paper ones which were never much use even when new. My R1155A still has many wax caps but it is awaiting surgery. It works quite well though and is fun to use!

73,
Ian G1DRP

[satelliteone]

Used my ANTEX on a MOSFET in a PSU, dam them dry joints..lol

[5B4AJB]

3x old DVD burners, from the local shop, to get the lasers out so I can burn stuff like predator :D

[G6SRE]

Cuttting a hole in the plastic plenum chamber of my jeep
Regards Barry

[2e0sql]

a Morse oscillator and pl259s for Intermediate exam last October..

[Orion]

gas cooker....mark 6 ...does the trick!
shame nothing i ever made worked though :)

[kd0bik]

PL259's. Made up some short coax cables.

[5B4AJB]

Mains wiring for the circuit breakers in my new shack!

[G6NHU]

A couple of weeks ago putting a PL259 *shudder* onto a length of EcoFlex 10 cable. All the other connectors here are N-Types and as soon as can get a spare from Yaesu I'll be swapping the SO239 on the back of the FT847 for 144MHz for an N and replacing the 259 on that cable for an N as well. I hate PL259/SO239 connectors with a passion.

[jmjatlanta]

Soldered two pl259s on the feed line of a new dipole last night, plus soldering the elements onto the feed line. Impatiently waiting for my new callsign to appear in the ULS database so I can key up. That is if the rig I bought will key up. Otherwise I'll be doing some more desoldering/soldering.

[M6PAP]

Yesterday evening soldered a 259 on to the coax for the second hand Diamond X50 that I got from a rally earlier in the day.
Cost me £12, (save you looking about £70 GB) only up about 8 feet at this time but hey I have repeater access - RESULT!! :)
Worth getting to these events early, I could have sold it a couple of times while walking around but then I would have to find another at the right price!!

[K3GMT]

I built two of K1EL's WinKey. Thankfully no surface mounts.

[5B4AJB]

making a power-up panel for 18 P.C's - and I busted 2 of my 3 irons on it :(