nuckolls.bob(at)cox.net
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 Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:09 am Post subject: Soldering Iron Rest Upgrade |
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Just finished up a little task that some of you may
find interesting. I purchase a goodly number of Metcal
soldering tools for my clients. When the equipment
comes with a iron rest, it's often so corroded or beat up
that I hate to send it on to the customer. I've glass-bead-
blasted a few and repainted them but this is too labor
intensive and the finish is not terribly durable.
Radio Shack offers a fairly utilitarian soldering iron
rest that works with the Metcal wands. It's their catalog
number 64-2078 and sells for about $8. However, as supplied,
the thing is too light. It wanders around the bench as the
wand is withdrawn and replaced.
I keep a supply of shot on hand for various weight building
activities. In this case, a 2 oz plastic cup is juiced with
about 10 gm of 30-minute epoxy. After blending the epoxy,
bird shot is blended in until the cup is full of sticky
shot.
The pasty mixture is dumped into the hollow base and spread
out to level it. It takes about a cup and a half of the
mixture to fill the base cavity on the Radio Shack
product. I've built about a dozen of these over the years
with two of them ending up in my shop. The modification
makes this product much more pleasant to work with.
Bob . . .
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( "Problems are the price of progress. )
( Don't bring me anything but trouble. )
( Good news weakens me." )
( -Charles F. Kettering- )
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