[mikethedruid]

It is when dealing with things like this especially that I value my old Weller 100 / 140 watt soldering gun. It does these jobs a lot faster than the modern, fancy, low wattage irons. I use it for all my vintage radio soldering work, have for more than a half century now. The low wattage ones are fine for PC board work, I have a Weller station for that too, but for antique radio work, I always use my gun. By the way, I also use a flux I made by dissolving violin rosin in rubbing alcohol It really helps when soldering to sheet metal. Weller still makes these kind of guns. I advise anybody doing a lot of antique radio work to invest in one.