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    Default soldering irons non electric

    I have some soldering irons that need some panel beating to bring them into shape. Seen Dad do it....beat the hell of them after getting the glowing many times and then filing to get them true.

    I have never seen the steel shaft in its bare state.
    Would it have some sort of groove in it to allow the copper to be forged into it to stop movement of head to shaft?

    I do have one i could destroy to find out...but!!!

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    I've not seen the shaft of one either, but I'd say at a guess that the metal has something like an eye or mushroom top to stop the head rotating.
    Be interesting to find out for sure.
    Kryn
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    Some are just threaded into the copper

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    Quote Originally Posted by China View Post
    Some are just threaded into the copper
    that would make sense...easier to screw in than forge around it?

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    Hi Eskimo, Guys,

    Somewhere I have a 1 lb soldering iron that as far as I can recall belonged to my great Grandfather on my Dads side. Anyway I ended up with it and remember using it when I was about 14 or 15, making a radios from parts and other old radios that were given to me.

    I recall having a paraffin heater, the sort that was used for pans and kettles when you went camping, to heat it up and keep it hot ! The wooden handle split and fell off, so for a time I was using rags to hold the steel shaft, I had many burnt fingers, until my Dad made and fitted a new one. That had a threaded copper head and a mushroom top where the handle was, so you had to unscrew the copper head to replace the wood handle. I recall Dad clamping the steel shaft in a vise and using a big spanner to unscrew the copper head.

    I remember my Dad hammering the new round wooden piece down the shaft with a tube, till it got to the mushroom bit at the end.
    Dad showed me how to file it clean and tin it using Bakers Fluid and plumbers solder.

    Happy days !
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Had to make one during electrical apprenticeship, used steel rod threaded the end then taped the copper bit. A lock nut was put on the shaft, the bit screwed onto the shaft and the lock nut tightened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dinosour View Post
    Had to make one during electrical apprenticeship, used steel rod threaded the end then taped the copper bit. A lock nut was put on the shaft, the bit screwed onto the shaft and the lock nut tightened.
    Ditto, Form 2 Metalwork 1976, still have it somewhere. Definitely threaded.

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