[time-nuts] LPRO questions...

[Magnus Danielson]

Hi Alan,

On 09/05/2013 07:57 PM, Alan Kamrowski II wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, I had it apart so I went ahead and tried the heating process on the
> lamp.  I don't see any splattering on the lamp at all of purple material,
> but I added some masking tape to the threads and put it in a drill to rotate
> it.  I hit it with a hot air station at 350 deg C and rotated it for 60-90
> seconds or so.  The end result is a lamp that went from 3.5V to 3.7V.
>
> Did I do it long enough or hot enough?  The repair guide I saw said
> something about a hot air gun and those can be 300-600 deg C...
Sounds about right. The problem isn't really getting vaporizing, but
having it deposit at the right place.

Cheers,
Magnus