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Step 8The gutz
The basics of it all. Not much really. But damned effective beyond what I expected.
OVERVIEW: With the element inside the solder shaft I noticed I had to isolate the the lead running up the outside of the shaft from the metal casing. I had several different sizes of heat insulating tubing that would fix this. Next, I had to reshape the shaft slightly into an oval shape to fit the ceramic heating element with the added wire heat insulation tubing. The next step was to see if I could still have air pass through the element with the added insulation. I could see light through the other side of the shaft that said to me it was all good. Now the easy bit was to use the wire terminal joiners previously used by the iron to join the heating element ends to the battery power wire ends. I used the 240 volt AC cable previously used for the iron as I wanted a thick wire capable of handling some amps.
OVERVIEW: With the element inside the solder shaft I noticed I had to isolate the the lead running up the outside of the shaft from the metal casing. I had several different sizes of heat insulating tubing that would fix this. Next, I had to reshape the shaft slightly into an oval shape to fit the ceramic heating element with the added wire heat insulation tubing. The next step was to see if I could still have air pass through the element with the added insulation. I could see light through the other side of the shaft that said to me it was all good. Now the easy bit was to use the wire terminal joiners previously used by the iron to join the heating element ends to the battery power wire ends. I used the 240 volt AC cable previously used for the iron as I wanted a thick wire capable of handling some amps.
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