{"id":1486,"date":"2012-02-24T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/two-workbenches-and-a-mini-solder-pot\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:33:08","slug":"two-workbenches-and-a-mini-solder-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/two-workbenches-and-a-mini-solder-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Workbenches and a Mini Solder Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/029.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/029.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712655348676422546\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-size:85%;\" >KC9LIF&#8217;s bench<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-size:100%;\" ><br \/>Hi Bill,<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-size:100%;\" >FB&#8230;What a great addition to your work bench. Congrats, you will put it to good use! I remember that scope when I worked at the Nuclear Physics Research Department Cyclotron at Indiana University about 30 years ago. It was the top of the line and worked great!! I lucked out by getting a Techtronics 2213 60Mhz dual trace at a Hamfest for a great price a few years back. Luck like that comes to those that wait. I recently gave my work bench a face lift&#8230; BTW, the bench doesn&#8217;t look that nice now&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-size:100%;\" >73,<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-size:100%;\" >Kent KC9LIF<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-size:100%;\" ><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ShackPix2528Jan122529.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ShackPix2528Jan122529.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712657958974653570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Dino&#8217;s bench<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Bill &#8211;<br \/>Ray VK4ZW&#8217;s &#8220;solder pot&#8221; idea is a good one&#8230;.for another version check out Doug Hendrick&#8217;s tech note at his Hendricks QRP site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrpkits.com\/files\/MiniSolderPot.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1330081754_0\">http:\/\/www.qrpkits.com\/files\/MiniSolderPot.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congrats on the new scope! We have finally moved to our &#8220;place in the sun&#8221; and I had the opportunity to double the size of my workbench.<br \/>73 &#8211; Dino KL0S<\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KC9LIF&#8217;s bench Hi Bill, FB&#8230;What a great addition to your work bench. Congrats, you will put it to good use! I remember that scope when I worked at the Nuclear Physics Research Department Cyclotron at Indiana University about 30 years ago. It was the top of the line and worked great!! I lucked out by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/two-workbenches-and-a-mini-solder-pot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Workbenches and a Mini Solder Pot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","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\/1486","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=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}