Hello Andrew! Welcome to the list. I know Paul, Robert & Co. are taking good care of you at the CSPT. I have been using a Weller soldering tool for hammer burning for years now. The model I have is a Weller Portasol PSI-100K. If the controls are the same I may have some help for you. There are two slide controls. One turns on the butane, this uses commonly available cigarette lighter butane gas. The second slide control is the ignition. I had trouble lighting mine constantly for a while and found what helps. Pull the slide down and let it go quickly. If it is released too slowly, it does not light. I do find this a great tool for burning shanks. I like to let it warm up for about a minute first. then it is good and hot to go. Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090228/8b78d57e/attachment-0001.html>
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