CreepyCrawl
I wanna be Dave
I'd personally perfer wires instead of the posts because I was concerned about how much heat was getting absorbed from the soldering gun while waiting for the posts to get hot enough for the silver solder to flow. A wire would be really quick to solder and it could be easily insulated by shrink wrap. I know that the Tekin has a great drag brake, that's why I'm running them in my comp rig and the scaler. I wasted too much $$ last year with the novak garbage.
My comp rig weigns in at about 7lbs, that's with the double fatties full of bearings. I had a siuation last year where the course desended a really steep rock face, easily 50*, and the drag brake didn't hold the rig, but it did make the perfect, slow speed creep down the rock face. I couldn't have controlled it myself that well. My idea of the perfect drag brake would be more of a parking brake, all 4 tires would drag across the rocks as gravity pulls the rig towards the earth!
Interesting...if you're using a soldering "gun" those typically have insane heat and wattage ratings. You should be on and off in a matter of seconds at most.
I used an 80W Weller WES50 station at 800 degrees before I got my new Hakko 936 and I had the FX-R posts tinned and in about 2 seconds flat and wired with 12awg Noodle in about the same. Using a nice broad tip is key to retaining heat on the piece that you're soldering.
7 pounds at that type of descent angle explains the situation perfectly :shock: and I'm with you on the orange boxes...never again now that I own Tekin speedos.
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