At 01:40 PM 1/12/03 -0800, you wrote:
3) Does *anyone* make DIN plugs which don't
melt if you bring a soldering
iron within 5ft of them?
4) Where's my coffee?
Coffee is an addiction and bad for you.
Plug the connector into a socket while you solder the pins. Keep the tip
clean and wet with solder, don't dick around, heat the connection, poke a
bit of solder at it, and leave it alone as soon as it flows. Use a good
quality iron.
One of the tricks to NOT melting the connector is to turn your iron temperature up high.
That way you can heat and solder the connection quickly and get off of it instead of
continuing to heat everything up. A friend of mine used to repair telephones all day long
and he said that he kept his iron at 900d F. Get a junk part and experiment with it.
Joe