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Offline G7PSKTopic starter

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Novel use for solder wick.
« on: February 04, 2013, 05:23:38 pm »
I had to join a very small co Ax cable today, and was looking for some way to join the outer braid, I was considering wrapping it with the solder wick  when on looking closer at it I found that it was a tubular braid that could be opened up and slipped over the co ax and then soldered on.
 

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Re: Novel use for solder wick.
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2013, 06:01:01 pm »
I have used it as well to fill in the space in a PL259 connector when I did not have a reducer to fit the cable.

Also useful as a connector to join shields together.
 

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Re: Novel use for solder wick.
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2013, 06:06:59 pm »
interesting, using it a la chinese finger prison thingie.

I used to use solder wick to reinforce cracks in plastic I melted back together with a soldering iron and hot glue, melting the solder wick into the back of the plastic as stitches before hotgluing.
 


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