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Oliver Bulleid
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Hi,
I recently acquired an old brass loco to rebuild, much of the work can be accomplished with an Antex 25w soldering iron but there are a few large items such as the dome. The seller suggested a Micro Flame but I have never used anything so powerful.
Any ideas on either a source for a Micro Flame, presumably a jeweller's blowtorch or should I use the 125w chisel-bit soldering iron that has lain unused in the workshop for 20 years?
Tim
I recently acquired an old brass loco to rebuild, much of the work can be accomplished with an Antex 25w soldering iron but there are a few large items such as the dome. The seller suggested a Micro Flame but I have never used anything so powerful.
Any ideas on either a source for a Micro Flame, presumably a jeweller's blowtorch or should I use the 125w chisel-bit soldering iron that has lain unused in the workshop for 20 years?
Tim
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) I clamp the bits together using a variety of self locking tweezers/aluminium hair grips etc. Then I hold the piece with some pliers (it gets hot!!!). I run flux down the joint from my syringe, snip off a small piece of solder from the reel and place in the joint with tweezers. I then heat using the microflame adjacent to where the solder is but not too close as if the flux boils it sometimes flicks the solder off into space. As the solder starts to melt tilt the work piece down hill to help it to run and chase the solder with the flame. When doing solebars or other long runs I can get 3 or 4 inches with a tiny bit of solder.