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Anyone repair METCAL wands?

Anyone repair METCAL wands?

Anyone repair METCAL wands?

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My METCAL RFG-30 wand is now more not working than working.  Seems to have a break in the wand.  For a while I just kept my scope on. By wathing the trace I could see how far to twist it to make the connection.   It looks like if I removed the plastic plug at the iron end and pushed with a split tube at the cord end I could get the internal connector to push out.  Anyone have experience with repairing these?  Advice would be appreciated before I do something I can't recover from.

RE: Anyone repair METCAL wands?

The RFG-30 is the old style base unit. But I believe the wand has remained the same as Metcal has changed model numbers of the base unit. The wand number for the newer MX series base units is MX-RM3E, and I believe it's not too expensive. Used Metcal parts can be found on eBay also.

RE: Anyone repair METCAL wands?

(OP)
EBAY!  That's where I got this one.  Semms every time I really pay decent money for something there I have problems, the $20 items are always fantastic.  Used wand comes to about $60 with shipping.  There is a seller there that claims he repairs METCAL wands.  Over a week and he hasn't returned my email.  That at least gave an indication that these can be rpaired.

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