{"id":172,"date":"2007-07-01T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicweller.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2020-04-29T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T01:00:16","slug":"weller-soldering-1976-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Weller Soldering 1977 Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years after Copper Industries (Houston, TX) purchased Weller Electric Manufacturing from Carl Weller they published their November 1977 Product Catalog #600.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bama.edebris.com\/download\/weller\/catalogs\/weller-catalog-600.pdf\">http:\/\/bama.edebris.com\/download\/weller\/catalogs\/weller-catalog-600.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Weller WTCP and WTCPL were discontinued in 1976, except for some late military orders. \u00a0<em>I repaired a US Navy surplus WTCP station with a 1977 ink stamp inside TCP-1 iron<\/em>. \u00a0The 1977 catalog shows the the WTCPN model (replacing the WTCPL model). \u00a0This model would be in production for 5 years (1981), when it would replaced with the WTCP series model (same form factor) that featured many changes.<\/p>\n<p>* New TC-201 soldering iron. \u00a0Plastic molded blue handle, black heater insulator, plug-in heater (EC-234), updated 3-pin iron connector (with twist lock).<\/p>\n<p>* Power illuminated rocker switch changed from Carling TLG-Series Mid-Sized Tippette snap-in rocker switch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlingtech.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/TLG-Series_Details_%26_COS.pdf\">https:\/\/www.carlingtech.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/TLG-Series_Details_%26_COS.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>to the Carling LRA-Series Curvette illuminated rocker switch. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlingtech.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/LRA-Series_Details_%26_COS_0.pdf\">https:\/\/www.carlingtech.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/LRA-Series_Details_%26_COS_0.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years after Copper Industries (Houston, TX) purchased Weller Electric Manufacturing from Carl Weller they published their November 1977 Product Catalog #600. http:\/\/bama.edebris.com\/download\/weller\/catalogs\/weller-catalog-600.pdf The Weller WTCP and WTCPL were discontinued in 1976, except for some late military orders. \u00a0I repaired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/?p=172\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-weller-stations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2CurK-2M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicweller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}