damnit. now iām on the TS 80/100 hype train again.
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Love mine - does the trick for sure and being able to run off my power bank is super handy
I find silicone trivets the bestest things EVARā¦ a soldering pointā¦ a cocktail coaster, a dollar at the dollar-storeā¦ no fireā¦ non-slipā¦
itās natures perfect soldering upon materialā¦
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I have bothā¦ and both are greatā¦ I take them with me on adventuresā¦ but when Iām at homeā¦ I fire up the Aoyue with the flux dispenser the solder reel,ā¦ the feel of a real thingā¦
I have an Aoyue 9378 and a fukton of tipsā¦ if I canāt solder with thatā¦ I have a big assed weller iron with a 1/4 wide tipā¦ or a torchā¦ but in all honesty if you need more heat than thatā¦ improve technique or crimp wiresā¦ too much heat is bad vibrationallyā¦
fess you can have bothā¦
ok fukkersā¦ we sent @whaddys thru the millā¦
throw rocks at these two random qwik solder joinsā¦
itās only 18ga on 1.5 nickle but I feel a crareful observer will understand the techniqueā¦ and I am not above helpful or poking fun criticismā¦
that is a way out. buying a TS100, TS80, a weller, a hakko, and a X-tronic. simple.
well. they said TS100. 
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Only thing would be using a Dremel for roughing up the nickel, you get a much cleaner puddle from itā¦but thatās just nit picking
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Kook, Iām expecting a āweāre going streakingā , nickel hybrid joke.
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yeah Iāll take itā¦ fully scratchedā¦ the bottom pool is NASA specā¦ the top pool too much solder wandering but it still passedā¦ notice the lack of wire burn?
almost zero solder wanderā¦ no lack of fusionā¦ no cold joinā¦ look closerā¦
The fact that the TS80 uses more power really bothers meā¦I canāt in justify the TS100 when it has less chooch in use
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The joints look perfect still, I normally like them to sit flat but your wires definitely stay cooler than mine
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I definitely need more practice with that on heavy stuff, 10awg usually fights me enough to have a noticable stiff section
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Hate it lol joining 2x 10awg wires into a loop key is death
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XT90 connectors are not so bad, itās getting the long lines that I use for my pack terminations that gets me
This but itās just 2" of open strands on a single piece of nickel (this is an old pack, donāt bother roasting)
Did one yesterday and it went better than usual, down to about 5mm of stiffness past the end of the nickel with 12awg
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Yeah I am going to do that for my pos and negative leads lol itās gonna be bad
Iām assuming you fluxed it and all?
it still amazes me you get those insulation cutsā¦ I donāt have the intuition or the patience for thatā¦
kudos
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Iām too tired to understand things, can you explain?
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Shaving away the little bits in the wire to solder to
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