I still have my Father's as well in the tin carrying tool box. Still works just fine I don't use it often though. Stay Safe Stay Home an Stay Healthy Fred
I found this advertisement awhile ago, my Dad found it in 1954 I guess because he used this same make - model soldering gun in his business in Del Rio, Texas when I was but a brat, he had "Queen City Radio & TV" and he did maintenance work for USBP & TDPS & local PD & Sheriff's office, installs, trouble shooting, tower maintenance, repeaters, etc. This little Weller Junior was like an appendage, even after we moved to Va in '59 and he was hired at GE … he worked a lot with this gun.
I still have the gun and his work bench which has a transformer under it which powers a bench gun. Dad died in '69, I have other soldering guns, but this thing still rocks. Every time I use it, it's like Dad is there. I've used it on home projects, kits, slot car chassis as a kid, stereos in cars, the bikes, etc. I can hear him telling me to be careful or to put it down when I was in my early years like even just 4-5-6-7 years old, being an inquisitive brat with his dad on a service call. "Son, that's not a toy" … I liked seeing the lights come on, it was like "a ray-gun" in my mind then.
Bakelight housing, probably used up 50+ tips? No telling the yards of Kester Flux Core Solder it's melted. I think it's been dropped before, but it works. No Velcro used, but yeah … zip ties & duck tape … and some 3M Super 33 too. Like an old friend it is.
Make Courtesy Your "Code of the Road" too!
I still have my Father's as well in the tin carrying tool box. Still works just fine I don't use it often though. Stay Safe Stay Home an Stay Healthy Fred
Vintage 09' Vivid Black, Boyesen X force intake, DK Customs DIY external breather, PV tuner, Mighty Mite love Jugs,Titanium Wrapped Header pipe, Khrome Werks 2+2 Wide Sweepers, DK 2" tank lift deluxe, Air Deflectors, Rear Bumper, Fender Chrome trim, Kuri. Rear lights, 9" LRS recurve flat top wind screen, LED headlight and spots, Hubcaps rear wheels
I still would like to meet the guy that stuffed that tiny roll of lead with flux
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Vintage 09' Vivid Black, Boyesen X force intake, DK Customs DIY external breather, PV tuner, Mighty Mite love Jugs,Titanium Wrapped Header pipe, Khrome Werks 2+2 Wide Sweepers, DK 2" tank lift deluxe, Air Deflectors, Rear Bumper, Fender Chrome trim, Kuri. Rear lights, 9" LRS recurve flat top wind screen, LED headlight and spots, Hubcaps rear wheels
Bill
2010 Tri-glide, Red Hot Sunglo
R I P MANDY
Unfortunately their quality has really tanked. I remembered how good my father's Weller soldering gun and iron were, so I went straight for that brand about 10 years ago when I needed new tools. Within a 6 month period I bought 2 different Weller soldering irons and a Well soldering gun. They all died after 2 or 3 uses.
Jim
MSF 27339
2020 Freewheeler , 2005 FJR 1300
Yeah, I've got two newer ones, one is a junior, one is a dual wattage one, 100 / 160 watts maybe? They both have plastic bodies, not bakelite … they work but the one newer Junior is low heat and the other one doesn't seem much hotter than this 1954 version, even on high. I sometimes think I'll repair the body with JBWeld, but then I ask myself "why"? The old frayed duck tape and 3m S-33 tape with zip tie backup seems to do the job … besides, the bakelite might crumble when I snip the zip ties & pull the tape off? .
$7.95 ?
I think that between us, "Dad & I", we got his money's worth out of it long ago.
Make Courtesy Your "Code of the Road" too!
Mine is the dual wattage, not the Junior. Another band member left it at my house when he quit the band so I guess it was free back in the mid Sixties. I keep solder in my tool box on an old typewriter ribbon bobbin. I refill it about once a year. This will be a lifetime supply for me. The bakelite on mine is kinda rough, too.
Bill
2010 Tri-glide, Red Hot Sunglo
R I P MANDY