{"id":11031,"date":"2010-04-08T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/workbench-p-taking-solder-on-the-road\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:33:11","slug":"workbench-p-taking-solder-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/08\/workbench-p-taking-solder-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Workbench\/P!   Taking Solder on the Road!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/al7rv_bench_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/al7rv_bench_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457680675334779250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sure, lots of guys carry rigs with them to the field, on vacations, etc. But how about taking your WORKBENCH with you on trips? Perhaps only truly hardcore homebrewers reach this extreme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">It may be that with summer approaching, guys are getting nervous about being away from their beloved workbenches&#8230; This week I got three e-mails related to portable workbench operations: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jim, AL7RV, sent in a nice shot (above) of his most recent workbench location. Jim says while he does not have racks and racks of sophisticated test gear, he does have lots of fresh air (and a nice view) while working on his projects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nicholas, M1HOG, sent me a web page describing the portable bench he put together for use at his country cottage. While out there, he said he had &#8220;started to miss the delights of melting solder.&#8221; We hear you Nicholas! Nice solution:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m1hog.com\/projects\/elecraft-kx1-building\/elecraft-kx1.html\">http:\/\/www.m1hog.com\/projects\/elecraft-kx1-building\/elecraft-kx1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Finally, Rogier, PA1ZZ &#038; KJ6ETL, reports on some very nice cabinets that seem ideally suited to this kind of work: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gerstnerusa.com\/\">http:\/\/www.gerstnerusa.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">This is all great, but I think we have to draw the line somewhere. How about this: No soldering while driving! <br \/>No soldering while in flight on an airliner! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Soldering Irons to the Field! 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Taking Solder on the Road!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11033,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions\/11033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}