Posted on Tuesday, 20th December 2011 by Auw Jimmy

Finding a good soldering iron is not an easy job. But once you find it, it will simplify the rest of your life – I mean, the rest of your soldering life

One of my preference brand is Goot from Taiyo Electric, Japan. Although there are several affordable and also durable brand, but I think I’m quite OK with this Goot soldering iron (but remember, this is not the only brand in the world and the important is the man behind the gun, I mean, the solder).

I’m quite happy with CS-30 series which I bought maybe more than 7 years ago. It’s very durable. The main reason for me to change is the screw to remove the tip has broken (so I can’t change the broken tip). The new replacement is CS-31 which carries similar spec (25W version).

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Tags: Goot, Melting Temperature, solder, Soldering Iron, WBT
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Posted on Sunday, 13th November 2011 by Auw Jimmy

During the upgrading process, the old Ceramic tube socket also got new replacement to the Teflon one. The problem is, the process to remove the old tube socket will not be an easy job, as removing other parts. Why? Because as other part usually only has 2 leads, the tube socket got 9 points to be removed.

Actually if you really want to re-use the old socket, you have to use hot air solder to remove the perfectly. But I don’t really have the need to re-use the old socket. So I cut them directly.

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Tags: Aikido, preamp, solder, Teflon, Tube Socket, WBT
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Posted on Sunday, 22nd November 2009 by Auw Jimmy

When I arrived back home at night and cleaned up my equipment, I noticed that my solder tip has “golden” color appearance. Well, I have been on this solder-toy-world for over 15 years, but never saw my solder tip showed this kind of color.

I think this is caused by the usage of Mundorf M-Solder Supreme Silver/Gold. Check here for another entry of my blog for the short review of this solder.

Am I Seeing (Smelling?) My Gold Burned?

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Posted on Sunday, 22nd November 2009 by Auw Jimmy

I also got chance to test the Mundorf M-Solder Supreme Silver/Gold. This is one of the finest solder on the market. Currently, I use WBT for most of my main project. But the chance to try the M-Solder shouldn’t be wasted, right?

This Mundorf M-Solder Supreme Silver/Gold consists of:

• Sn: 88.6%
• Cu: 1.8%
• Ag: 9.5%
• Au: 0.1%

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