grovenor-2685 wrote:Guy Rixon wrote:It melts the solder nicely from the reel, but as soon as I touch it to the model the solder freezes and the iron will not melt it again. It's as if the effective power is much lower than the nominal 50W and the tip is going cold. Is this an expected effect
Shouldn't be with a normal sort of soldering job and a 50W iron. But it does depend on the size of heatsink you are trying to solder, what is it?
I'm trying to solder an axleguard assembly to the floor of a coach. It's a reasonable area of 0.010" brass, but nothing crazy-large. The deceased unit, with a 6mm bit, would have done this easily.
I should have a 6mm bit for the Antex in a few hours and will try again.