DIY Packraft | Donald Becker | Activity https://www.diypackraft.com/members/dbecker/activity/ Activity feed for Donald Becker. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:48:08 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 0c3668cd5a5dc13295f13de2673c42d8 Donald Becker replied to the topic Heat-sealing tools in the forum DIY Packrafts https://www.diypackraft.com/forums/topic/heat-sealing-tools/#post-15236 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:45:09 -0700 I say 240V only solely because it has so little heating power at 120V.  It will take a long time to heat up, and the iron won’t be able to maintain a stable temperature in use.  The temptation will be to run it hot (or at least as hot as it gets) and rely on thermal mass, rather than feedback temperature regulation.

Even at 240V the iron has a p…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ba544b50d9d0d6bf690945542df3888 Donald Becker replied to the topic Heat-sealing tools in the forum DIY Packrafts https://www.diypackraft.com/forums/topic/heat-sealing-tools/#post-15220 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:05:19 -0700 I bought one of the Jingda ‘XL-150A’ leather irons from Aliexpress and did an examination.

Before even powering it on, I took it apart.

The first thing I noticed was the power cable was bogus.  It had a 3 prong ‘Y’ grounded Chinese Type I plug molded to the cable.  The plug was marked “JS-03 10A 250V”.  The cable was embossed with “3×0.75mm2” al…[Read more]

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