Greetings Phellow members,
I was reading an April 1937 issue of Radio Retailing and on page 37 (in their SHPRTCUTS section) I came across this tip :
Any thoughts on the tip?
I wasn't sure if this was the correct section to post this type of info.
It is pretty useless today.
Sprague Kwikette Soldering Aid
Still used today but make your own...
https://www.antiqueradios.com/forums//vi...6&t=192722
Quote:I forget if those little coiled up wires are called squigs or quigs, but I think that Bill Turner used to sell a tool to help making them. It was basically a wooden dowel with a hole in one end and little steel pin for wrapping the wire on.
For NOS
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Some refurbishers use these extensively as one does not have to clean out a terminal to get the lead of a replacement part installed. Avoids roasting a terminal strip or breaking a tube socket terminal. Adding heat shrink completes the joint.
It makes for pretty clunky repairs, something that better solder removal techniques can avoid altogether. The real fix and flip types love "J' hooking new parts in, sometimes they don't even bother with the hook part, just tack soldering, that way they don't have to spend money on extra wire. I don't do repairs anymore, I do full electrical overhauls, 80 years on no paper capacitor can be trusted, and neither can the original solder joints or many of the resistors, even more so if the set is full of rubber/gutta percha covered wire.