you never know what you find when you clean up the garage a little.
I totally forgot i had this antique soldering iron.
the handle is a hardwood i know because i can tell by the grain, however, its so aged, it feels as light as balsa wood. I took it in the house to lay on a log for decoration. No telling who made it, where it was made or what smith kept it on his tool shed wall as a daily tool.
i love stuff like this.
notice the copper is hand smelted as well and pretty much hammered onto the iron rod its attached to.
thats gotta be pretty old. my brother would probly like to see that in person since he solders all the time :hick:
wonder how well it would work as even the electric ones suck.
I got one somewhere like that but much bigger, I always wondered what the f,they used it for. Except maybe to brand something.
It was probably used for leaded windows, and stained glass window soldering. or possibly for soldering steel gutters. That's all I got.
any bigger and you'd look like you are you'd be hauling a spear:rollin:
could of been used for sealing metal food cans when they used lead to seal them up.
yes.. an all purpose tool
And here is how you heat them up. I got this from a guy in the early 60's who used to solder galvanized rain gutters in the 40's and 50's.
I wanted the torch to take peeling paint off my house. After about 2 hours that thing felt like it weighed a hundred pounds.
Hey I have one of them to. now it makes sense.
The only use I can come up with for tools like that is a 3 Stooges skit, maybe one where Moe does something bad to Curly and Curly gets mad. You know, one they never did....
When I get in to steel gutters I will know what I need. I don't see much of steel gutters's.
I got some if you want them to practice your soldering skills
Ship them free! I will practice on them. Gee maybe a new hobby.
i suppose this is where brass is used to solder with? right guys? and that powder type flux