Found something cool

[Thumper68]

I was out today with the wife and we spotted a estate sale and decided to stop.

I was digging around in the basement and found this/these.

Something I have never seen before, still have to google them but thought I would share first.

 

[pstemari]

Those weren't bad for the era. The elements are interchangeable and have different wattages, but they aren't temperature controlled. By modern standards they are a royal pita.

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[Farleyfan]

Nice find, What draws the solder from the board ? vacuum, or those copper pieces ?

 

[Thumper68]

Those weren't bad for the era. The elements are interchangeable and have different wattages, but they aren't temperature controlled. By modern standards they are a royal pita.

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Thanks for the info.

Nice find, What draws the solder from the board ? vacuum, or those copper pieces ?

I have no idea I bought it for 2 reasons, the first is because it looked cool and the 2nd because I wanted to make sure it didn't end up in the trash.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I believe that they are a bit out dated.

 

[R.Anderson]

Nice find, What draws the solder from the board ? vacuum, or those copper pieces ?

Wick or just pull the component. No vacuum with this style. The goal is to make contact with all the pins of the component being pulled. Different pin counts and arrangements so different desolder tips. Round domed ones would work for tubes/sockets, transistors, potentiometers, and other componets with triangle or round pin patterns. The rectangle bar would work with ICs, connectors and pin headers.

Would still work but like said "PITA" compared to what is available today. I have and use a pistol grip style desolder vacuum. Nice find and save, collectable.

What ya pay for the set?

 

[Thumper68]

$8.00 IIRC, I also got a old Weller solder gun and a few other things the total was 15.25

 

[zkling]

Get a spring loaded solder sucker to go with it.

 

[Thumper68]

Get a spring loaded solder sucker to go with it.

I have one somewhere

But I don't remember the last time I needed it, don't do much where I need to use one.

 

[gdocktor3]

$8.00 IIRC, I also got a old Weller solder gun and a few other things the total was 15.25

Who charges .25 cents at an estate sale?

 

[gungatim]

Who charges .25 cents at an estate sale?

some of them charge tax.

nice tool, I've got a few old soldering irons like that. one is a craftsman. I picked up a "make your own circuit board" kit at one for a buck. came with sheet copper, etching compound, masking, etc. was never used but the etching compound was all dried up unfortunately...

what's nice about that set vs. the vacuum solder suckers is the different tips for getting both sides or multiple pins off something at the same time. the Weller guns USED to have lots of different tips available for similar work but are very difficult to find.

 

[Farleyfan]

Thanks R Anderson, I couldn't figure how those could work.
Not a bad idea to heat all the pins at one time but prob. took a good bit
of practice.

 

[MikeF2316]

I had one of those soldering irons when I was a kid. I only had the one element, it was 35 watts, IIRC. You could (I did) put a christmas tree light bulb in the handle if you wanted.

 

[brownbagg]

i got that exact same one, and i know its fifty years old

 

[kwschumm]

Nice find. I built many a 1/24 slot car chassis out of brass and piano wire with an ungar pencil just like that. I still use it when I need a lot of heat on a big solder joint.