[Coco] Soldering Iron

[Mark Marlette]

Gene,

Your dating yourself again.... In '61 I wasn't even born yet. :)

Mark

At 2/22/2007 04:37 PM, you wrote:

>On Thursday 22 February 2007, Torsten Dittel wrote:
> >> If you see a weller, please move to the
> >> other side of the street, cooper tools bought them 20 years ago and
> >> they've been crap ever since.  OTOH, I have a weller WTCP-1 thats over
> >> 40 years old & still works fine.  Looks pretty rough though, its had a
> >> LOT of use.
> >
> >I have a Weller Magnastat station from '77. Still my first one (gosh, I
> >started soldering with 8) and works perfectly for me. I use the very hot
> >points (7?), you just have to be fast enough.... Reads "Cooper Group
> >Germany". When did they buy it?
>
>I bought that one when I was in Rapid City SD, in about 1960, maybe 61.
>Its the original black brick & made well before Cooper bought them.  The
>only thing I've had to do it other than replace tips was the end of the
>barrel got dished in from screwing the tips down too hard and I had to
>dis the handle and put a teeny kink in the pull wire that reaches from
>the magnet inside the tip barrel back to the switch to shorten it about
>the same .020".  Also had to shorten the cable at the brick end due to a
>flexure break.  That's it.  Most of the outer jacket on the handpiece
>cable has fallen away though.  That iron probably has 25,000 hot hours on
>it with 550 to 800 degree tips in it.  Still the original heater.  Later
>ones have a heater life of maybe 6 months under an 8/hrs/day operating
>schedule.  Junk...  But, despite a grounded tip, that mechanical switch
>still makes too much of a static jolt for cmos circuitry so I wouldn't
>trust it 100% around cmos stuff.
>
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