9:54 PM 7/4/2016
Soldering Mayhem.
Well, yesterday I spent most of the damm day trying to do a simple solder job on that front light.
I haven't soldered in like, I don't know 10 years or so, first thing I did was run out to Horror Freight (open on Sundays) got a 30 watt iron and some solder.
Come home, ready to do the LED conversion, I remember OK..let's tin the tip...well, the solder is balling up and running off like mercury out of a broken thermometer.
I stick to it...and hours go by....solder ain't sticking..no way Jose....I got it 'kinda ok' and called it a day
(There's about 5 hours of my life I'll never get back.)
so, i research a little and find it's Lead Free Solder...that's all that HF sells, Apparently, it's a bit (ummm)..."difficult" to work with...so today, I go and get some 60/40 reg'lar lead electrical solder at Walmart...ended up redoing the whole light. Solder flowing like it should now.
Anyhow, I got the guts from a much flatter light, a toggle switch on top wired in.. everything fit in the light, battery pack and all. it's a very shallow lamp case..so all in all...it ended on a good note.
I found this cool little light at Thrift for the rear...this one went together easy...and quickly.